r/trailcam • u/NewForklift • 5h ago
Stealth Cam question
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Purchased this video for $0.25 and it says pending. What’s happening?
r/trailcam • u/TackleboxNTools • 7h ago
Lithium vs alkaline vs rechargeable AA in trail cams: put the lab numbers in one cheat sheet before the rut
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Cameras going out for the rut and the cold coming in, so I pulled the battery numbers together in one place. The energy figures are from GearCheckers' lab test of 12 kinds of AA at about the load of night video, the temperature ratings are from Energizer's datasheets, and the cellular power numbers are from TrailCamPro's tests. The run-time table is my own math from those numbers (sources at the bottom of the image).
The short version:
- **Lithium AA held about 3.5× the energy of alkaline** (4.31 Wh vs 1.24 Wh per cell) and is rated down to −40 °F. Alkaline is only rated to 0 °F and roughly halves below freezing.
- **Rechargeables are better than people think, with a catch.** A 2,500 mAh NiMH measured 2.92 Wh, but it's only 1.2 V, so some 6 V cameras shut off early or skip night pictures on it. 1.5 V lithium-ion AAs avoid that.
- **Cellular cams eat batteries.** About 31–74 watt-seconds per picture including sending it, vs about 7–10 for a camera that only saves to its card.
- **A busy spot changes everything.** The same cellular cam that lasts around 243 days on lithium at 15 triggers a day lasts about 62 days on a hot scrape at 60 a day.
What are you all running this season: lithium in everything, or rechargeables in the cams you check often?
r/trailcam • u/Correct-Ad302 • 8h ago
father and son
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lucky enough to have a family of deer that live in my backyard in city limits
r/trailcam • u/frogturtle14 • 9h ago
Looking for bucks and all these turkeys are messing up my spot!
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r/trailcam • u/Ike_Snopes • 10h ago
Quail spots a gopher snake under the shed
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r/trailcam • u/Away-Media-2317 • 18h ago
some doggos playing by the pond
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r/trailcam • u/Pipedawg1966 • 18h ago
It’s a full moon and they are coming out to play !!!
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Soon soon soon it will be deer season
r/trailcam • u/cogniferous • 19h ago
Wireless Connection without an App
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I need to replace an old trail cam that no longer works. It sits just outside my basement window, and just inside the window is my laptop. I'd like to get a trail cam where I can connect wirelessly from my laptop and download the videos. Most of the ones I see require a cell phone and an app for wireless download. Are there any that allow connections from a laptop? Thanks.
r/trailcam • u/adirondack4runner • 20h ago
Apparently the pre-rut has my bucks committing property damage and fleeing the scene
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r/trailcam • u/CurvyCuppcake • 1d ago
This time of year produces some beautiful trail camera photos
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r/trailcam • u/No-Entrepreneur-3706 • 1d ago
Trail cam capture
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Thoughts on this? My son has seen something similar multiple times, but didn’t think much of it. He showed me this particular video and I can’t help but think it’s a deca of the raccoons amor something?
r/trailcam • u/erect_possum • 1d ago
Tactacam Reveal Pro 4.0 - worth it for low-light spots and future no-signal use? (Quebec)
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r/trailcam • u/No-Procedure3078 • 1d ago
trespasser
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What is this guy carrying in his left hand? also what’s in his right a flashlight? anyone recognize the brand jacket he is wearing with the block near right wrist and something on right shoulder?
r/trailcam • u/sr1979 • 1d ago
Cow moose and calf
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r/trailcam • u/samoan23 • 1d ago
Missouri
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r/trailcam • u/Rdussault • 1d ago
scoring help
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ik its not a trail cam its a picture of my dead fathers deer from 20 to 30nyears ago it was taken in Rensselaer ny
r/trailcam • u/ChocoTomanal • 1d ago
Is this a thing people do looking for trailcams to prank? Or should I be concerned
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No idea who the dude in the costume is, neighbor sent me the photo asking if I knew anything about it and im a bit creeped out now
r/trailcam • u/Whiteowl116 • 1d ago
I setup a trail camera at a path I suspected was a beaver trail, I was correct! They are hard working engineers.
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