[Jenny Flowers]

I’m thinking about getting a Qinux FelinStop for my garden but the spot where I’d put it only gets sun in the morning. Will it still charge enough to work at night? I don’t want to buy it and then find out it dies by evening. Also curious if it needs to be moved around or if one spot is fine.

[Olivia_park]

Morning sun only has been fine for mine, it still runs overnight. I think the all day sun thing gets overstated a bit.

[Luna]

Mine sits under a tree so it only catches a few hours of morning light, and it’s been running fine at night for about three months now. I never move it around either, just left it in the same spot since I set it up.

[Tom_Craig]

I’ve got one in a shaded corner that sees maybe two hours of morning light. It still does its thing after dark, but the LED is noticeably weaker by then. Moving it around hasn’t made enough difference for me to bother.

[no_sleep]

Mine actually dies by morning if it’s been cloudy for a couple days, so I wouldn’t count on morning-only sun being enough year round. Worked great over summer when it got decent light, but once we hit shorter days it started fading overnight and the LED got weak. I ended up moving it to a spot that catches afternoon sun too and that fixed it. So yeah, one spot is fine as long as that spot gets enough total light, but morning-only is cutting it close depending on where you live. I’d probably just try it and see, you’ll notice within a week or two if it’s struggling.

[S4r4 Hernández]

I’d focus less on the total hours of sun and more on whether that morning spot is actually unobstructed when the sun hits it. Mine gets direct light from maybe 7 to 10am, then it’s in shade the rest of the day, and it’s been fine for the past couple months. But on days when it’s overcast in the morning, I can tell it’s running low by the next night. That’s the part that would bug me if I were you, because morning-only sun works until you get a stretch of gloomy mornings and then it catches up with you.

As for moving it around, I don’t think you need to if the spot is working. I moved mine once trying to chase better light and honestly it just made the coverage weird for a week while the animals figured out the new placement. So I’d pick the spot based on where you actually need the deterrent, not just where the panel gets the most sun.

[Sophi86]

Mine only gets a few hours of sun and it still quit on me by winter. It worked fine all summer, but once the days got shorter it barely lasted past midnight. So the season matters more than people make it sound.

[Casey M.]

Morning sun only is a gamble. Mine got that and it was dead by 9pm in November. Summer was fine, winter wasn’t.

[northshore]

I went with two of these instead of one, mostly because my yard has a dumb layout and the far end gets almost nothing after about 10am. Anyway, the one that gets morning sun only has been fine, but here’s the thing nobody seems to bring up: it depends a lot on what’s actually draining the battery. I had it set to one of the higher frequency modes for the first couple weeks and it was noticeably weaker by late evening. Switched to a lower setting and it stopped doing that entirely. Same spot, same amount of sun.

So it’s not just a sunlight question, it’s sunlight plus how hard you’re running the thing. If your morning spot is genuinely open and not fighting tree cover or a fence, I’d say it’s worth trying, but I’d start on a lower frequency and see how it holds up before assuming it’s a dud. Mine’s been out there since spring and I haven’t touched it.

As for moving it around, I did that at first and honestly it just made things worse because I kept resetting my sense of whether it was working. Left it in one place for a month and that’s when I could actually tell. So one spot is fine, just give it time before you judge it.

[Tom C]

I’ve had mine in a spot that only gets sun until maybe 10am and it still runs at night, but I doubt it’s holding a full charge. Two months in and it still kicks on, so it’s not useless. I don’t move mine around and it’s been fine so far.

[Claire Woods]

I’ve had mine in a spot that only catches sun until about noon since spring and it’s still going at night. Maybe it doesn’t fully top up every day, but it hasn’t quit on me yet. I just leave it in one place and don’t move it around.

[Marcus Olsen]

Morning sun is better than nothing, but I wouldn’t count on it lasting all night through the darker months. Mine handled a similar spot fine in summer and then got flaky once the days shrank. As for moving it, I just leave mine in one place.

[Jenny Flowers]

Mine stayed put all year and did fine.

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