GregValiant 1,342
I'm a beach fisherman. Typically I'll have three rods spaced about 25 feet apart. I'd be yacking with a person passing by, or fooling with one rod and I'd get a strike on another, or sometimes I'd just flat out fall asleep. The un-noticed fish might pull off a couple hundred yards of line before I would notice.
So what I have here is a strike indicator system. The buzzer box goes next to my sitting spot and the separate boxes go on the 1 1/2" PVC pipe that the rods are in. The fishing line is held by the pieces of wire on each box. When there is a strike the wire falls off the fishing line dropping the brass rod past the IR sensing switch which in turn passes a signal to the buzzer box energizing the power transistor and making enough noise to alert me to the situation.
Next is bluetooth so I can get rid of the wire. I know there are commercial systems but where's the fun in that?
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GregValiant 1,342
@Carbon you will be pleased to know that you are currently in first place.
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There is a buzzer, 9volt battery, 50ma power transistor, resistor, SPST switch, and a stereo jack mounted in the large tan box.
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