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Good morning, I have a Campark T 80 trail camera which I use to video Hedgehogs in our back garden, it uses 8 AA batteries to run the camera which is set to run during the hours of darkness. The instruction booklet says I must not use re chargeable batteries in this unit, what would be the reason for this ? and would i do any damage if i did use re chargeables? i am currently changing the eight batteries more than once a week and its not cheap. thanks for your thoughts.
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The batteries should be lasting a lot longer than a week. This reviewer uses Energiser Lithium batteries https:/ /outdoo rwilds. com/cam park-wi fi-trai l-camer a/
This reviewer recommends rechargables and a commentator says his batteries are still at 75% after 2 weeks
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Is your camera constantly connected to WiFi? Are you downloading lots of footage over wifi every day?
You could email their customer support at [email protected]
The batteries should be lasting a lot longer than a week. This reviewer uses Energiser Lithium batteries https:/
This reviewer recommends rechargables and a commentator says his batteries are still at 75% after 2 weeks
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Is your camera constantly connected to WiFi? Are you downloading lots of footage over wifi every day?
I do not have the camera wifi set up as it was a faff, the camera is set to come on at 18.00 for 12 hours and it records 1 minute videos, i do not have it set to have a delay between videos just comes on when it is triggered, it is set for the highest quality video . Batteries certainly lasted a lot longer than they are doing now, I just put it down to the cold. we do get a lot of videos though, i changed the batteries on Saturday and put a clean card in and this morning i have 178 videos to look through. ( There is a lot of Hog activity at the moment in the garden - the young ones dont want to go to bed it seems)