good evening YouTube got some crows in the background artists are down at the local park
and some trees this is the patio enclosure that I have behind my house and I've got these dual wall
polycarbonate panels on the roof and then on the wall here but in between there's the 2x6 joists
or Rafters whatever you want to call them that run that way and you've got this opening here that's
just a little under two feet this way and then it's a two foot spacing between the two by sixes
I want some way so I can seal this up to keep bugs and whatnot out of here because ultimately I'll be
putting a wall on this side here and I don't know if you can see that up there but I have a piece
of acrylic panel all stuffed in between the two Rafters and then between the ceiling panel and
the beam across there what I want to do with those is drill some holes in those for 120 millimeter
PC case fan so that in the summer I can have ventilation here and that's why I want something
here that will seal this off against bugs but will allow airflow so here's my wire mesh probably hard
to see on the camera so I got some that that's just a little bit wider than I need so I used a
pair these sheet metal pliers to bend a 90 degree flange on there and that flange sits up against
the polycarbonate sheet and seals up against that face and then the screen just gets stapled up to
the wood around there okay I got that one I marked the outside trim it down to the right width and
then put a staple in at the back corner there the back corner there and then one in the middle and
then I can pull it tight and work my way out both ways to meet up in the corner and so this mesh is
0.1 inch spacing so it's around two millimeters maybe eighty thousandths opening it's a galvanized
steel mesh so I'm hoping that it's a small enough size to keep bugs like yellow jackets and whatnot
out because that's one problem I have along here is when the yellow jackets like in the spring here
they want to build their nests all over up here so it's it's a constant battle trying to keep
those uh guys from setting up house in here so this was the LED tape that I originally put up
on the outside of my patio enclosure so I have like a 16 foot five meter length there so this
was supposed to be the weather coated LED tape but I think it was pretty cheap you can watch here
I'll power it up and you can see it's lost large sections there it's probably lost five ten percent
of the lights and even the ones that are laughter you know there's some that are kind of dim and so
I don't think this was very good quality tape instead of trying to replace it and reuse it
that's why I figured I'd go with these separate light bulbs because I like the look of those
there's a whole strip that's gone I don't know what what happened to it I haven't actually used
this very much but you can see it's missing big sections so I think the coating must have broken
down I'll try to reuse this in the garage at least the metal strip and then if this tape fails I'll
just rip it down and put up another strip yeah this might work okay in the garage yeah so this is
my main LED strip and this one has worked perfect not a single chip is burned out this gets used all
the time and then the way I have this set up is I have a little wireless remote here and if I push
that button we can turn on the light out there so I've got another strip here that's inside
the enclosure and that one's held up fine too it was just the one on the outside so right now the
outside lights will be plugged into the same circuit that these lights are on so that way I can
just turn them on and off with the remote and if I leave them on then I can turn them on and off with
the switch here inside the house so I'll click the Switch here and I can turn everything on and off
so anyway the outside light I think what I might do is put them on a double pole double
throw switch so what I could do is have one side of the switch go to this circuit which
is controlled by the motion sensor and that way if I walk out and have the lights on the
lights outside the door there will also turn on and then they'll turn off as well because those
are on a timer and the motion sensor logic but then with the switch I can flip the switch the
other way and then just have them go straight to 12 volts and have this the lights on all the time
because one of the problems is if I was having some people over and we were out back sitting
out there the motion sensor here won't ever trip so you'll be sitting out there and 10 15 minutes
later the lights will turn out so I think that way I could have a double pole double throw switch
I can throw it one direction to have automatic lights and then the other direction I could have
manual lights I like these automatic controlled lights because if I walked away in about 10
minutes those lights turn off automatically so I can never forget and leave them on they turn
on and turn off automatically and then if I turn off the remote those lights never come on
and it's only these lights that turn on with the motion sensor so yeah just trying to figure out
how to incorporate all that stuff in the outside lights get some better looking lights out there
and they're supposed to be weatherproof and then I get my insect screen and the weatherproof light
and there'll be either a motion sensor or manual lights so I think that should cover
all the bases because I really like these motion sensor lights they work really well
hopefully uh maybe this weekend we can get these lights hooked up and see what they look like
all right