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The way the Interface comes from the manufacturer is as shown on the left.
Since this is a stand-alone device, I
wanted mine in a tougher package so I purchased a small project box shown on the
right from Radio Shack to put the Interface inside of.
I just cut a slot out of one side
of the box, drilled two holes and
mounted the attachment board facing
out. I also had to grove a hole out
from between both top and bottom
sections to get the power cord out.
Now we are ready to put this to
use.
The
goodie you see here is an
Event
Control Timer, also made by Haunt Master Products. This is at least the most
important part of my haunt. It has the ability to turn your Jumping Jezebel on,
leave it on for exactly 3 seconds, turn it off and then keep it from being able
to be triggered again for, say, 20 seconds. If you run two wires from your
solenoid, or Interface, to the side attachments on this ECT it will detect the
circuit closure and send 110V power out of the power outlet on the right side of
your picture and to your Jezebel.
 The playback device I use for my projects anymore is the
Mimic Machine which
records 8 seconds of sound. This unit has red LED eyes on on and extension wire,
built in mic & built in light /
motion activation and at about $16
is the best deal I have ever found.
You can order these from the
Halloween Club in Santa Fe Springs,
Ca. over the phone at
(562)-407-3284. For patching the
sound out of this device you need
to open up the case and solder
external speaker wires to the two
terminals on the speaker itself
then solder to the other end a
phone jack to plug into the powered
speakers. This how-to doesn't show
the Mimic in use, but a home-made
unit that does basically the same
thing.
Here you will see a nearly complete assembly of motion detection, circuit
opening and a sound chip (digital voice recorder) box to produce a sound signal
that is then fed into the powered speakers so we can hear the voice of the
monster. I sometimes use the powered speakers similar to the above, and
sometimes I use the much louder karaoke machine to relay the sound. The
solenoid, or Interface, can have just this hooked up to it or can go to an
animated prop to trigger that, or both. What is not shown in the photo
above is the ECT (shown below) hooked up. You will need two more wires coming
from the 110v relay that will be attached to the side mounted screw attachments
on the ECT.
The FORMULA to hooking this together is this;
Plug ECT into 110v wall socket.
Plug 110v power line to event into the female 110v out of the ECT.
Plug motion detector into 110v wall socket.
Plug 110v relay into female out of the motion detector.
Attach the two wires from the out of the 110v relay to both the trigger to
the digital sound chip and to the side attachments of the ECT.
Hook speaker out wires from the digital sound chip to the line in of the
powered speakers.
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It might seem like a hell of a long
way to go to give your animatronic
a voice and become animated, but so far this is the simplest system I have ever
found to achieve everything we have just achieved here in this combination. This
is the same system I use for my
Coffin
Coronary,
Aerial Executioner,
Crypt Keeper, a static werewolf,
Trash
Can Trauma the
Exorcist and the new
Lynching.
Hopefully your next haunt will become even more animated than ever with the help
of our Floodlight Motion Detector! Rest In Pieces,
Death Lord
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