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Title: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: bowhunterforever on April 14, 2014, 01:12:04 AM: Thinking about buying a couple new cams and was curious if any of you guys ever use a Moultrie d55ir xt? How do you like it and pros and cons about them? Thanks
Title: Re: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: huntnnw on April 14, 2014, 05:52:26 AM: I have one and it has worked great. All my moultries over the years have been good cams
Title: Re: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: bowhunterforever on April 14, 2014, 02:06:08 PM: How many pics do you think you get from one set of batterys?
Title: Re: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: haugenna on April 14, 2014, 02:38:47 PM: I have had great luck with Moultrie cams. I am running the D55 IR Xt as well. I have left it in the mountains for 2-3 months with as many as 4,000 pics on one.

Great cameras. I have had one form of the Moultrie running for 3 years.
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Post by: Bean Counter on April 14, 2014, 03:03:07 PM: *tag* 8)
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Post by: Mr Mykiss on April 14, 2014, 09:56:10 PM: The moultrie D55ir is the best camera I've ever owned :twocents:, I have four. I don'know about the xt model.
Title: Re: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: huntnnw on April 15, 2014, 12:26:47 AM: I get thousands of pics on the batts, I have never run one dead yet...as its either to far of a hike in or distance to travel to leave a cam for a month if the batts are low I switch them out. Nothing worse coming back a month later or a 5 mi hike to see it died 4 days later :bash:
Title: Re: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: Rich_S on April 15, 2014, 12:35:44 PM: I have a Moultrie CDC-5.0 camera which works well but for the fact that it eats batteries. It is not an Infrared model, so it uses a visible flash at night. 6 D cell batteries will last about a month and less than 100 pictures. It is set up in my yard, so there's no problem with checking it, just that a half-dozen batteries a month gets expensive.

Since this camera uses 9 volts, I can't just hook up a small 12 volt sealed cell alarm panel battery to it. I just ordered a 12V to 9V converter from Amazon for $6.99 that should solve the problem.

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Title: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: bobcat on April 15, 2014, 12:55:45 PM: I've always used 12 bolt external batteries with my Moultrie cams.

Not the camera you have, but D40's, D55's, and an L50. All of them take six c or d batteries, which would be 9 volts.

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Title: Re: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: Rich_S on April 15, 2014, 03:12:21 PM: Quote from: bobcat on April 15, 2014, 12:55:45 PM
I've always used 12 bolt external batteries with my Moultrie cams.

Not the camera you have, but D40's, D55's, and an L50. All of them take six c or d batteries, which would be 9 volts.

Did you use the 12 volts direct to the camera or did you use a Moultrie cable to connect them? I talked to a Moultrie rep today who said their cable has a "Amperage" limiter in it. I knew he meant voltage limiter, but refrained from correcting him.
Title: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: bobcat on April 15, 2014, 03:20:01 PM: I've used the Stealth Cam brand cords that come with the Stealth Cam battery boxes. Also a custom made cord that I used to hook my Moultrie D40 directly to a 12 volt Marine deep cycle battery.

Moultrie sells a 12 volt battery with a solar charger that puts out 12 volts. I've read about it on the Chasin Game forum and people say it does in fact put out 12 volts to the camera. The Moultrie cameras must have some sort of regulator that allows 12 volt external batteries to be used. I don't know why they don't tell the truth when you call them. Ive read of other people being told basically the same thing. "Only use the Moultrie solar battery kit"

That's BS.

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Title: Re: Moultrie D55ir xt
Post by: Rich_S on April 15, 2014, 04:44:30 PM: I had a sneaky feeling that might be the case. Most circuits use even lower voltages and either have a splitter or regulator (i.e. Zener diode). They would probably work just as well with 12V input as 9V.

But, after the dude on the phone told me the camera wouldn't stand 12 volts and the regulator was so cheap ($6.99) on Amazon (I have Amazon prime, so shipping is "free"), I figured I wouldn't take the chance he was correct.

A couple of nice fat blacktail does (probably gravid) came through the yard at noon the other day, went down to the bay (tide was out) slogged through the mud, then walked upstream in the creek bed. I grabbed my cell camera, but they were almost out of sight, You can just make out the last one going behind the trees on the right side.

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