Post by: BobR on April 14, 2009, 09:41:39 PM
Locals can contact Steve for more information.
Parts and camera list
http://yeticam.com/
Control board set up for Sony W80 - Horizontal with front mounted controls $39.50
Black 1040 Pelican Case - $16.00
Power Switch - $2.00
Control Board Power Cable - $1.00
.65" Fresnel Lens -$2.50
1040 Pelican Case Seal - $3.00
Three Wire Servo Assembly - $6.00
Shipping $6.00
Total Yeticam bill- $76.00
High Resolution Sony Cameras ( available on Ebay)
Sony DSC-W80 - 7.2 mega pixel
Sony DSC-W90 - 8.1 mega pixel
Sony DSC-W200 - 12.1 mega pixel
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Looking for a p41 and seems you have to bid on everyone of them. Could a sony s60, sony s90 or a sony L1. Seems they are easier to get and they are all 4.1mp. Just wanted to know if it is possible to use them.
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Post by: BobR on April 29, 2009, 07:07:03 PM
Keith, I will get you the info on external batteries later tonight.
Bob
Post by: BobR on April 29, 2009, 07:21:34 PM
Bob
http://www.hagshouse.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29404
Post by: javman on April 29, 2009, 07:35:41 PM
I've been researching that for a couple of weeks. Just got an answer over on the "Real Deal Hunting Chat" forum.
Check out:
http://realdealhuntingchat.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=24286 (http://realdealhuntingchat.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=24286)
and
http://realdealhuntingchat.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=23863 (http://realdealhuntingchat.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=23863)
From what I've gathered, your only option for added battery life is to wire multiple of the Sony battery packs (or generics of the same size), externally in parallel. These batteries have three terminals.. the third terminal is labeled "C" on the battery, in between the plus and minus. When you've got the camera taken apart, you'll need to solder wires to where plus and minus contacts are (but not for the third, "C" terminal).
The extra terminal is for the camera and battery to communicate, making it a "smart" battery. Who knows what they're communicating about... probably just how much juice is left in the battery. If you wire two external batteries, and keep one battery in the camera, you're going to have triple the capacity of a single battery setup. Oh and you're going to have to keep one battery in the camera, because if there's no connection to the third terminal, it will complain that the battery is generic and won't work.
Does that make any sense? I haven't done one myself yet, but probably will in the next couple weeks (when I do I'll take pics). The places where I put my cameras are too far from home to be checking them on a regular basis... So I'll probably be using a 3 or 4 battery setup. Oh and you can buy generic rechargeable batteries for these cameras on ebay for around $12 a piece, that have a slightly higher capacity than the standard Sony ones.
The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how I'm going to make a battery "holder" to fit these batteries... The guy on RDHC stripped apart one of the battery chargers to "hold" his...
Post by: BobR on April 29, 2009, 09:35:01 PM
Bob
Post by: javman on May 03, 2009, 09:59:33 PM
I just wired my W120 with three external C batteries in series at 4.5V. Works great! The Sony NP-BG1 is rated at 960mAh, and this setup with 3 C batteries should be close to 8000 mAh.. So it should last 8 times longer!! I'm guessing I'll get at least 2 months on this setup. Squeezing this into a 1040 might be tricky, but I'm going to try it soon.