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[–] _lilith 78 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The little blue light on rings comes on when they pass, then when they go to check it out it makes a noise when it starts recording. By cat standards that's a toy

[–] StaySquared 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Bingo! I live in an area where there's lots of wild life, including cats (they don't appear to be owned by anyone) that roam through our neighborhood.. we have a camera where an LED lights up the moment there's detection, cats and racoons are more likely to approach and analyze.

[–] Nurse_Robot 47 points 8 months ago

That's the opposite of a problem

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's worried you're not respecting the GDPuRr.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Please do not ever delete this comment

[–] stoicmaverick 22 points 8 months ago

Someone must watch the watchers.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

*cat keeps improving security cam

[–] Desistance 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why is that mini split so close to the ground? Does it not rain there?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Air-water heatpumps are far more efficient than air-air! ;)

[–] Blue_Morpho 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Regular heatpumps are mounted that low too.

Where do you live that you get 4" of standing water when it rains?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Texas recently.

[–] Desistance 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Louisiana. Heavy rain is a regular thing throughout the year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure why you think that would be an issue. Mounting the exterior compressor close to the ground is common practice for ease of maintenance. Getting it wet isn't really a problem. I'm not really sure why we're having HVAC install discussions in a cat forum though :P

[–] Desistance 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Most mini split installs I've seen are not so low. The lowest I've seen is at least a foot off the ground until now. Maybe it's not a problem for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A lot of times they will mount them to the wall if the unit is small enough. It's cheaper and the refrigerant line run is shorter. But for larger units it's common practice to mount them on a concrete pad on the ground. In this case, someone probably just didn't want to spring for the wall mounting hardware, so they put it on a couple cinder blocks. It's not ideal, but it doesn't really hurt anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not really sure why we're having HVAC install discussions in a cat forum though :P

Maybe it's like discussing Linux on animé forums ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Cat burglar

[–] StaySquared 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

lol.. does the cam have a little LED light? Otherwise, that cat's intuition is cray.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Cats also have insanely sensitive and wide frequency hearing. It might notice some sort of coil or switcher whine or other noise that wasn't there before.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

"excuse me sir, what are you doing here?"

[–] Jimmycakes 7 points 8 months ago

How much was that mini split?

[–] exanime 7 points 8 months ago

Cats are no narcs