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Delivered in a neat kit inside the box which eventually houses the finished unit. Made of stiff card but it is functional. The instructions are pretty comprehensive and with fair soldering skills I found it easy to make up the unit, in under an hour. The only defect is that there is no specific place for the PP3 battery which knocks around inside if unsecured - I glued it down but that's not a terribly good long-term solution as will have to tear it apart from the box when the battery runs down. It seems to work well - we have at least one bat circling our garden most nights and it could be detected before it came into view. Whether it will be easy to distinguish one species from another remains to be seen.
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The size of the box, and the cardboard it is made of put it in a lower rank than its competitors. I made a wooden box for the components that is less than half the volume of the box supplied. For a portable instrument this makes a big difference.
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Great device if youre handy with a soldering iron. Good value for money considering the price of Bat detectors normally. Was surprised at how effective it was - it felt like the bats were attracted by the device! - clearly we hadn't realised what bats were in our area before now. There are a few improvements that could be made - the battery has nothing to hold it in place so we did modify ours to stop the battery roaming inside the box. The device is contained in the box the kit comes in, which is cardboard, so how long it can hold up, only time will tell with use.
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This is a simple but well thought out kit. It can be easily constructed in a couple of hours by anyone capable of using a soldering iron. The instructions are clear and assembly relatively easy if you take time and follow the sequence of construction exactly. My assembled kit worked straight away in test mode. Weather conditions delayed a field trail but on May 9th, the evening was perfect and the detector worked very well. A super kit that gives a sense of achievement to the builder and works well. Great fun and value for money.
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great value, works really well. Soldering is very small and needs high skill; a way to stop the battery sliding around would be good. I used a bit of self adhesive Velcro
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