Moultrie game camera Battery advice

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So I only get about 6 days from the 6 D-cell batteries in my Moultry trail cam . With coppertops maybe a week and half . 22 pics is the most I have ever captured in that time . I bought one of the rechargable d-cell systems but they are worse at about 4-5 days and only a few pics. Anyone evr adapt a external battery and does it HAVE to be 9v ( what the 6 D-cells add up to)?
 
Bum camera???

Yeah that does not sound very good for battery life, I have a 4.0 regular flash and a 5.0 infrared flash. Only killed one set of batteries and that was cause the rancher put his cattle in the pasture that had the camera over the spring they drink from. It had over 1200 pics before they went dead. I know rechargables will not get as good a life as alkalines but 6 days is a problem.

I would make sure that the batteries were good (maybe some old stock??) but it doesn't sound like the camera is behaving properly. Might be worth taking it back to the place you got it from.
 
I have a I40 and have about 900 or more pics with the same batteries, and the last time i checked the batteries were at 74%

Are you using a flash camera ??? The IR models use wayyyy less battery power, but I would think even a flash model would last longer than a week. I would call Moultrie and ask them. They have excellent customer service.
 
I have over a year and 8 thousand high-resolution pictures - it is set up to catch thieves - on the same set of d-cells in our Moultrie I40. It sounds like something is wrong with yours.
 
Duracell's in my I50...going on 5 months, probably 1000+ pictures, batteries still at 60+%.

My old Bushnell's used to eat batt. like yours, but never my Mounltie's.

Something has to be wrong with your cam. :(
 
I've had a lot of trouble with the flash units on three Moultrie 5.0's..Cabelas replaced them ..but I got a lot of black night pics..next time I'm getting and IR Moultrie
 
Like the others, my I40 lasted for hundreds of pix (all summer) on a set of D-cell Duracells. I used Pansonic batteries prior to that and although not as good, they lasted 4 weeks, IIRC.
 
Contact moultrie directly and let them know what is happening, they aree very good for standing behind there product. I have two cams and the only time the batteries went dead was when the temp. dropped below 0c. and they still went three weeks at that.
 
last year I had a corn feeder using a moultrie motor, connected to a small Moultrie solar panel to charge the 6v. battery Keep in mind that the feeder only ran once a day, but the battery never went under 95%.

A bear broke the solar panel, so I called Moultrie to see if I could purchase some replacement parts. The kind Moultrie lady took my addy, and a week and a half later I get a package with a complete solar panel ($30 value) free of charge.

Call Moultrie, I am sure they will solve your problem.
 
TonyMo said:
The other thing is to NOT put a large capacity SD car in it. Stay under 2GB as larger really sucks up battery power.
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:confused: Never heard that before. Most cams can't use anything bigger than 2 GB anyways.

I use 512mB cards...good for about 550 pictures. Cheap as dirt, and easy to rotate.
 
I had a bushnell that was only giving me about 2-3 days, exchanged it for another, still not getting 6 weeks, but about 2 weeks.

If I get another cam, I will get a better one and probably one with a solar panel.
 
I do not know about the new ones, but I have heard nothing but bad news about the Bushnell cams. My local hunting store no longer sells the busy ones because to many customers were complaining.

Also helps to by an IR model, not a flash, flash takes more power.
 
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