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Offline KimberRich

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Re: Trail Camera Battery Life
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2009, 10:38:57 AM »
murphyranch what voltage is the charger you found? I have thought of doing the same but didn't know what voltage would work on the d-40. Great idea. I have seen some go really cheap on ebay.

Kris

Kris I bought the 12 volt one that moultrie sells for the D-40. There were 2 of them in the bargin cave think I payed 45 bucks for it. It has built in batteries as well as the solar charger. I had to do a little modification to it. I had a hell of a time with the plugin for it so I fixed that real quck other wise it is great well worth the money even if you have to pay full price.

http://www.moultriefeeders.com/productdetail.aspx?id=mfh-cpp

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I would gladly pay $45 for the solar charger if I found them for that price.  Sounds like you hit Cabelas at the right time.

A buddy and I have 4 D-40's set up right now over in the Okanogan and I'm really curious to see what battery life is left when we go check them on the 19th.  Most of theother set ups we have done over there were later in the year and the weather was much colder so I'm sure that effects battery life also.

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Re: Trail Camera Battery Life
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2009, 10:50:56 AM »
I started this topic because of a moment we had a few years ago.. Guess I should have put it in the first posting.

We had a camera set up on our best spot a few years back and had planned to leave it for about 5 weeks before checking it.  It was during the rut and the best time of year to catch a decent buck or ?? moving around. 

After 5 weeks with a ton of anticipation we started hiking up the trail to where the camera was set up and immediately came across a set of Moose tracks in the deep snow.  It was leading directly towards our camera!!  We were excited to see what we had on film.  I've gotten tons of animals on the cameras but never a moose.  The tracks lead directly in front of the camera and it stopped and took a leak and milled around for a bit and then moved on.  It was obviously fresh since it had been snowing almost every day for a month and the tracks had not been filled in yet. We were so excited to look at awesome shots we had gotten!   :IBCOOL:

Upon pulling the SD card and putting it in my camera to scroll through, we found no Moose photos???

There were some deer pictures from the day before but apparently the camera battery had died right after taking those photos and the moose had apparently walked by after the fact!!!  :bash:


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Re: Trail Camera Battery Life
« Reply #17 on: September 13, 2009, 11:54:45 AM »
Murphy,

Thanks for the info.

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