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Specks that is! Everyone always says mojos flares specks but I figured out easy way without buying remote. Attachment 42477

I'm surprised it works with that lil battery over all that wire. But either way, thumbs up.

Cher

It does I thought the same but tried it n it works great

If the mojo is flaring em, hard wire the sob to 100 ft of bright orange cord so you can unplug it from the blind!

Lol. Or just don't use a mojo lol

I hunt ducks too. Ppl say that. The ext coord won't show at all. Underground.

U don't have to have a mojo to kill ducks :)

At least you drink good beer!:)

could of just got you a remote

I rigged up a toggle switch to a waterproof electrical cord like that. I think I had about 100'. You want to make sure to get a chord that is only as short as you need and a gauge wire that doesn't cause your battery to wear quick (thinner gauge wire)......You will see what I am talking about real quick. Those batteries don't last long when you ask them to run through 100' of extension chord wire to complete a circuit. Just takes a lot of juice.

Maybe an electrician could comment, and I could learn something, but those batteries don't last near as long running through that chord and here is why I think that is the case.

All I remember is E =I*R from a home an electronics course I took. R = resistance, and with that long chord and large gauge wire Resistance goes up. Therefore as R goes up you get less voltage (E)

I tried the remotes too....They don't seem to work outside of about 50 foot. Also, if the receiver gets wet they are caput. I went through 3 of them in 2 years. I am a little tired of that.

You probably could have acheived the same thing with smaller gauge wire.

This sounds like a bunch of work, where a little bit of extra grass, and some good calling would be more than sufficient.

Can a guy just be excited about rigging his decoy without catching a bunch of trash.

x2!!! That's what i was thinking.

There's always somebody hatin on mojos....

Looks like a good idea to me...

me too, but i guess if you use a mojo you don't know how to duck hunt in some peoples eyes.

i know some guys that hunt for a living... hunt every day. have 3 and 4 mojos in each pond, hard wired to their blinds. car battery wired to some toggle swithes. i don't personally own a mojo, but there swear by them...

ingenuity...i like it bud!

He is entitled to a 220 volt spread if his heart desires it. If it blows his skirt up, I'm happy for him. I hope it brings lots of luck to him, and he kills droves of birds over it. But when you start having to do algebra formulas to get your wiring right for your decoy spread, I think it's gone a little far. I'm all about new ideas and new thinkin to kill more ducks, but lets keep the main thing the main thing. Good luck to all of you Saturday.

P.S. I'm not tryin to sound like a bully or know it all, it's just an opinion, don't blow your tops over it.

Lol. You have a point with the algebra

I never do or will. My entensions are for my spread and blind to look more natural than others. And if it means for me to have what looks like a content mallard stretching and flapping and putting ripples on the water at the same time so be it. Ill c how it works. Mojos work plain as day If they look natural imo

Ill tell you what's a good deal, academy has clip on decoy motors for 9.99. I bought 3. Gonna try em this wknd. Should add some great motion to the spread

A few years back I bought a decoy that had a moving head and a propeller on the backside. It sucked! The batteries (D sized) lasted like 2 hours! The prop hung in grass and it stopped spinning. It was disappointing. The year after I tried the duck that had the motor underneath the keel (torpedo shaped motor). Again, batteries didn't work well at all.

Since then I have started making my own decoys. I even cut one up, filled it with foam, put some props coming out of the side and threw it in the water. It worked too...


Its a byproduct of dreaming about ducks you know.

If the battery doesn't last just put a 6 volt golf cart battery in your blind. We did this a couple of years ago and only charged it 1 time during the split.

i've made some contraptions believe me lol!!

Nothing wrong with algebra.

Yeah everytime I see a flock of ducks sitting naturally in a pond there is always one that just sits there and rotates his or her wings constantly, and usually one in there that is stuck on a metal pole doing the same:rotfl:

That is just sarcasm, not trying to hate, plus I need to get some more saltycash:redface:

Ur wrong tho the duck isn't sitting there flapping all the time. You see ducks turn on a few secs and off. Content duck on water stretching and flapping. Hmmm sound better?

Damn skate innovation doesn't crap itself out...

@bgizzle Nice set up. Anyone ever use speck decoys with some kind of motion?

Brown telephone cord is a good idea! You can just hook it up to a lil light switch or any other kind of switch!

I'm an electrician and i support this message, in this case however its I=E/R that your concerned about. Longer the wire the more the resistance which means more amps which means quicker battery draw, also under sized wire will cause the wire to "heat " up causing more electrical resistance then back to more amps. The golf cart battery and adding a solar panel charger could be an option, I'd hardwire a switch though instead of plug unplug for on off. I would think 16-14 ga extension wire would be plenty at 100'. "small print disclosure". I was wrong once before though lol.

we use ohms law. V=IR. Completely agree with Shawn though on why it's draining.

I = V/R is the same as V = IR which is the same as R = V/I

Lol preciate the lesson

Lol! Y'all crazy. Lol. No one said its draining I used that battery just to make sure it would work I have a big 6v. Thanks for everyone's .02