What Batteries are you using ??

[justinO]

What are your most trusted batteries in your trail cams? Anyone buy bulk on ebay?
Thanks Justin

[brazeau]

Kirkland AA's from Costco

[justinO]

Are they lithium? Whats the life like in the cold

[Kevwood]

Energizer Ultimate Lithium, I bought bulk on E-Bay...$80 for 40 batteries...put them in my cameras(Reconyx) on July 01 and currently about 78% when I pulled Cards a week ago, approx. 15,000 pics taken so far on each set.

[brazeau]

Are they lithium? Whats the life like in the cold

The Kirklands are alkaline. I install 8 in each of my Bushnells in October, put them out for the winter north of Fairview and I've still got power when I check the cameras again in May (each with several hundred pictures)

[justinO]

Energizer Ultimate Lithium, I bought bulk on E-Bay...$80 for 40 batteries...put them in my cameras(Reconyx) on July 01 and currently about 78% when I pulled Cards a week ago, approx. 15,000 pics taken so far on each set.

Thats What I have been hearing with the lithiums. Just switched to little acorn cameras need aa batteries now. What is the sellers name if you don't mind sharing.

[justinO]

The Kirklands are alkaline. I install 8 in each of my Bushnells in October, put them out for the winter north of Fairview and I've still got power when I check the cameras again in May (each with several hundred pictures)

Thats very good for alkaline. Are your cameras IR flash?

[jip911]

I use the Energizer lithium's from ebay in my ltl acorns and bushnell trophy cams.... I found the Alkaline's didn't hold up to well in the winter... I get thousands of pictures on the Lithiums.

I don't remember the sellers name, just that it was free shipping from hong kong...
J

[brazeau]

Thats very good for alkaline. Are your cameras IR flash?

I run 5 Bushnell Trophy Cams and they're all IR

[dgl1948]

Sanyo eneloop rechargeable are by far the best. There is no self dicharge and they last for years. I run them in a couple of dozen cameras and have been doing so fore several years. If you run rechargeables get a good charger that will drain the batteries right down and then do a slow charge on them.

[Zuludog]

I read that NImH are supposed to be the best.

[justinO]

Thanks guys I am looking into them now.

[dfrobert]

Depends on the camera for me. Wild game
Innovations I can use normal AA batteries. The stealth cams I
Use lithium in cold weather otherwise I get less than a weeks worth
Of pictures.

[Mike_W]

I am running a test right now and will continue to do so over winter.
Two bushnell trophys and rayovac cheap battereis from walmart 30 batts for 12 bucks.

Are lithiums worth the price? I guess if you get two or three times the life and have your cameras a few hours away they would be?

What about rechargeables?

[Reel Time Rut Outdoors]

I find energizer lithium AAs are definitely worth the price, my reconyx cameras are both going a year and a half and still full life, not quite as long with the bushnell, moultrie, spypoint, and wildgame innovations cameras, but still many times better than alkalines

[mxz1997]

Be warned if your buying Energizer batteries on EBay from China they are most likely fakes. They prob work but not as we'll as the real thing.

[jip911]

Be warned if your buying Energizer batteries on EBay from China they are most likely fakes. They prob work but not as we'll as the real thing.

It only takes a few seconds to read the sellers feed-back... The ones I have gotten have out-lived the ones I bought locally by several months... I would never go back to alkalines.

Nothing worse than drive 3 hrs to find a dead camera that stopped taking pics a month earlier...

J

[TBark]

Energizer E2 Ultimate Lithiums in my Sony cams and Acorns.
Sanyo Eneloop Nimh's in my DXG video trail cam units.
Note, Energizer Advanced Lithiums last only half as long as the Ultimates.

TBark

[blackonblackfx4]

I got a big pack of Duracell Ultra Power at Costco. Cheep cheep and they seam to work well in my multrie cameras but how do they stack up in cold weather being Alkaline?