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Cellular trail Cameras
builtfordtough:
I'm running the Bushnell with Verizon. I have 3 bars where the cameras sit. Been up for 6 weeks with 2500 pictures and still have 100% battery life. This was just a test to see how long the batteries will last. My hunting grounds where I'll put them has 4 and even 5 bars. So super impressed with these
jrebel:
I have a spypoint micro with the solar panel on top of it. It has been up now for 1 year and the rechargeable battery is still 95-100%. I personally wouldn't do it any other way based on batteries alone. I did run the rechargeable battery down to 70% prior to learning how to use it. If you have it send pics every time it takes one, it will kill the battery. I have my pics sent twice a day now and the batteries are not effected. After I made that change, the solar charger charged the battery back to 100% over the course of about a month. I primarily use it for surveillance on the property....with the added benefit of seeing what walks by.
highcountry_hunter:
--- Quote from: jrebel on March 29, 2022, 12:19:44 PM ---I have a spypoint micro with the solar panel on top of it. It has been up now for 1 year and the rechargeable battery is still 95-100%. I personally wouldn't do it any other way based on batteries alone. I did run the rechargeable battery down to 70% prior to learning how to use it. If you have it send pics every time it takes one, it will kill the battery. I have my pics sent twice a day now and the batteries are not effected. After I made that change, the solar charger charged the battery back to 100% over the course of about a month. I primarily use it for surveillance on the property....with the added benefit of seeing what walks by.
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Is everything pretty user friendly? Easy to find a solar panel that pairs up, easy to get it outfitted with your wireless provider and easy to program how often it takes and sends pictures?
jrebel:
--- Quote from: highcountry_hunter on March 29, 2022, 08:48:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: jrebel on March 29, 2022, 12:19:44 PM ---I have a spypoint micro with the solar panel on top of it. It has been up now for 1 year and the rechargeable battery is still 95-100%. I personally wouldn't do it any other way based on batteries alone. I did run the rechargeable battery down to 70% prior to learning how to use it. If you have it send pics every time it takes one, it will kill the battery. I have my pics sent twice a day now and the batteries are not effected. After I made that change, the solar charger charged the battery back to 100% over the course of about a month. I primarily use it for surveillance on the property....with the added benefit of seeing what walks by.
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Is everything pretty user friendly? Easy to find a solar panel that pairs up, easy to get it outfitted with your wireless provider and easy to program how often it takes and sends pictures?
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The cam comes with the camera already attached as well as with the lithium ion battery. It's literally a plug and play system. I bought the bear box to protect it the best I can. I also hung it 15 feet up in a tree to keep the bears off it. It would suck to have bears eat your cell camera.
You can set it up to take pics in 1, 2, 3 shot burst in different time intervals. You can send after every picture...but if your in a target rich environment, the battery and solar panel cannot keep up. You can have pics sent at different intervals as well. I do twice a day and it keeps the battery fully charged.
You can change the settings from your phone and request photos to be taken / sent at the communication time to confirm it is working for the times it is not getting a lot of pics.
Overall.....I would rate it an 8/10.
Cons being:
1. Picture quality is not the greatest. When you subscribe to the service you get X numbers of high quality pics on request. I had 50 per year and it has been plenty. If I get a big deer, elk, moose, ??? I just request a high def pic and I get it pretty quickly. The average pics come in 10 mp which is sufficient but not great.
2. I have marginal cell service so I have had times when the camera has gone offline. Only once in a year did I have to manually reset it.
https://www.spypoint.com/en/products/solar-cellular-trail-camera/product-link-micro-s.html
You can find better deals.....140 ish dollars if I remember correctly.
Scruffy:
Are any of the cams out there passcode protected anymore? I have a Moultrie that is about 15 yrs old and just started using about 3 yrs ago. It is passcode protected. The wife bought me some Cuddieback cams but they are not passcode protected. I think it would cut down on the thieving of these if they needed a passcode to operate them.
I just purchased some property and it had 5 cams that were supposed to be left. All 5 cams are gone but they left the bear boxes that are only strapped to the trees. Why would they not take those also??? I just bought 6 of the new Moultrie Micro cams with boxes and locking cables. But nothing was mentioned about being passcode protected. Since there is no cell service these are not cell cams.
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