{"id":54,"date":"2026-08-14T14:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/2026\/08\/14\/rigging-a-camera-48-metres-up-and-leaving-it-there\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:21:44","slug":"rigging-a-camera-48-metres-up-and-leaving-it-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/2026\/08\/14\/rigging-a-camera-48-metres-up-and-leaving-it-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigging a camera 48 metres up and leaving it there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four rigs, forty-eight metres up, left running for nine months on solar and a very large battery. One was destroyed by a lightning strike in month three. The other three delivered the footage that episode three is built from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we would change: the housings needed a better vent, because condensation cost us roughly six weeks of usable frames across two of the rigs. And the mounting straps should have been checked at four months rather than six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The advantage of an unattended rig is that nothing about the animal changes because you are there \u2014 because you are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine months, four rigs, one lightning strike. The full method, the failure rate, and the two things we would build differently next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,11,9],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-borneo","tag-canopy","tag-method"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-safari-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}