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Title is not about studded winter tires but wise words about preparing for summer, from the times when carriage wheels were of iron-shod wood /Translator

 

All attentive Alutaguse bear camera viewers surely noticed that with cloudy weather and shortening days in autumn the image disappeared. The interruptions in transmission were due to power shortage. We went to the forest to improve the arrangements.

 

There are neither power nor communication lines near the bear observation ground. The image from the camera is forwarded from a transmitter in the highest spruce top to the Elisa mobile tower in Tudu. The necessary power for the camera and transmitter is provided by two solar panels and the batteries charged by them. The solar panels were installed in a small forest clearing near the camera. This power supply solution more or less worked but problems started when we installed lighting in the grounds in autumn. The lamp consumed so much power that the solar panels fell behind with supplying it. The situation grew worse as the days shortened and so it happened that in cloudy weather the camera image could not be transmitted. In a period when the bears were actively moving we did not want to make any major rearrangements.  A bear has a good memory and is an extremely cautious animal. And so we put off improvements to early winter.

 

 

 

Hopefully we can now store enough sun power from the panels and the camera will run without interruptions.