batteries

[HoofsandWings]

When I pull my game cameras, many of the cameras have 8 or 12 batteries.
Is there any rule of thumb on reusing the batteries? It is such a waste after a 1 month soak.
Especially with several cameras.

[pd]

My Bushnell Trophy Cams take 8 AA cells. I use Costco Kirkland brand. From October to June (9 months), several hundred pictures and no dead batteries.


One month is too early to change your batteries.

[Duffer]

Funny, I was just thinking about this too. My cameras tend to sit for about 4 months at a time. Battery life depends a lot on how many night shots were taken. Most will be dead when I fetch them but not always

The lesson I learned tho was, as with chips, don't reuse batteries

I've made the chip mistake a couple of times; not looking to see how much memory was left and then they max out long before the soak is done

afa batteries, I always replace them and bring the old ones home. Then I will check them with my volt meter. Trash the dead ones, feed the low ones into other stuff and save the decent ones for next trip over

What I was thinking was since I end up with lots of 'weak' C-cells that I need to pick up something like a mag-light that uses Cs!

Finishing off weak Ds and AAs is easy

It sucks to set up for a 3-4 month soak and return to find that the camera stopped working a week in!

[Bean Counter]

12 batteries?? 

My Primos Truth 35 runs on 4x Ds. So far it has taken 15,000 photos and used 50% of the battery life. It will likely last the rest of the season on the original batteries. 

My Brownings, OTOH, run on 8x AAs. When I was up there a month ago Imoved one of the cams that had about 60% battery life left on it, thinking that it made it the prior month only using 40% of the batteries, so I should be good going another month with 60% left. Can't argue the math, but in hindsight Iwish I would have changed them. They died with about a week and a half uncaptured before Inext got up there. It would have been nice to see how some of these guys grew.

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[vandeman17]

I am going on my second year of the same AA batteries in my cam with well over 20k pictures taken on both. They are both still going strong.

[jackelope]

I put new batteries in mine once a year whether they need it or not. Bushnell Trophy cams, 8 AA's. The last time I checked mine, they'd both been out 2 months. 1 had ~4500 pics on one and the other had ~3900 pics on it and both battery life indicators were still at full bars.

[Bean Counter]

Sounds like the Browning Trail Cameras are comparatively battery thirsty.

[vandeman17]

Sounds like the Browning Trail Cameras are comparatively battery thirsty.

My first camera was an older cuddeback and I am pretty sure I had to swap out the D batteries every two months or so. When I bought my trophy cams, they were more expensive then some but I will make up the difference in battery life pretty quickly

[billythekidrock]

Bobcat turned me on to a great little battery tester.

I primarily use Bushnell cams with 4, 8. or 12 Energizer Lithium batteries and they can be spendy.
Since I have bought it last year I have already saved the cost of the tester in saved batteries.