Batteries for Deer Cams
Teresa Gallagher
Here’s an FYI on the deer cams for anyone who gets involved with these in the future…
They say not to use alkaline batteries during the winter as they lose power rapidly in the cold and can crash the system below 20 degrees. I have had personal trouble with rechargeables not holding a charge for more than a few days, and was interested in using Lithium batteries, but the brochure seemed to imply you couldn’t use Size C Lithiums.
I gave the deer cam maker (Reconyx) a call and learned that the rechargers and rechargeable batteries from places like Walmart do not work well. In general, slower rechargers work better, and batteries with a higher milliamp hours rating last longer. They use Tenergy batteries, which have a much higher milliamp rating, and said the Tenergies in a good, slow recharger should last all winter.
During the summer the rechargeables won’t last as long, but they still usually get a few months out of them. The other option is alkaline C’s or lithium AAs (with an adapter). Lithium C’s are OK as long as they are not more than 12 Volts.
I found Tenergy’s at Amazon and a Tenergy slow recharger and ordered them.
I also purchased two extra memory cards, so a fresh one can be placed in the camera while the old one is being removed.
One last issue is the ability to test what the camera is viewing while you’re still up on a ladder setting it up. There is basically no way to do this except to remove the memory card, go home and look at the pictures, then return to make adjustments. This is doable for these two particular cameras, but if we ever get a camera meant to be moved about, that will not work well. There are card viewers available that would be needed.
Teresa Gallagher
Conservation Agent
City of Shelton
54 Hill Street, Shelton, CT
McCreery, Edward P.
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Teresa Gallagher
This is a larger sized compact flash card, and I had thought of that but I’m not sure if many cameras still use those. Also, because of card formatting, it might not be viewable in a camera (I once tried to look at pictures taken from one camera via another camera and it didn’t work). The viewers they most often use actually have a cable you plug into the cam so you don’t need to remove the card.
At Ansonia Copper I had to climb the flood wall ladder (15-20 feet?) up one side and down the other during a rain event each year for stormwater sampling. These are really hard ladders to climb as they have slippery round rungs and go straight up (regular ladders are at an incline). My shoulders would hurt for a week. At one point I found myself up on top of the floodwall during a raging thunderstorm. That was insane. I drew the line at inspecting all the roof tops as required under the stormwater regulations. I really didn’t want to fall through a punky roof 50 feet down into an acid bath below, especially since the head of maintenance would say, “If you ever need to go up there, take me with you because I know which parts are bad.” Forget it. I just wrote on the annual inspection reports “roof unsafe.”
Bill Dyer
What kind of card does it take? I have a card reader for various types. Used in conjunction with a laptop or notebook, you could view the card on site.
Teresa Gallagher
Richard had an interesting point with using a laptop or notebook with a regular card reader. I have one of those readers somewhere. I think if it’s plugged into something with power it doesn’t need its own power, but I need to check that.
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Teresa Gallagher
Another idea…a netbook could also be used to do Powerpoint presentations (which currently we can’t do unless someone else supplies a laptop). These are about $300.
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Tom Harbinson - Personal
Bloomberg. For little Shelton, while nice to have field or mobile
communication to files on record (all bldg inspectors in NYC have
mobile netbooks to review all drawings and applications and
correspondence while they are mobile), Shelton doesn't have all its
record infrastructure digitized or archived in a way that's
retrievable
For the amount of time you are in the field, camera of stills and
video or GPS data to be xferred later is adequate. Netbook also has
xtra cost of monthly data access from telecommunication provider.
Notebook computer with a cell modem is a better way than netbook in my
opinion, but evena notebook computer isn't necessary for our
situation, though ability to set/view the camera would be beneficial.
If I were to recomend any techno item that would improve your
worklife: a dual screen. It will more than double efficiency.
On 12/21/09, Teresa Gallagher <conser...@cityofshelton.org> wrote:
> Another idea.a netbook could also be used to do Powerpoint presentations
> (which currently we can't do unless someone else supplies a laptop). These
> are about $300.
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> From: shel...@googlegroups.com [mailto:shel...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Teresa Gallagher
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:20 AM
> To: shel...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: SheltonCC Re: Batteries for Deer Cams
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> Richard had an interesting point with using a laptop or notebook with a
> regular card reader. I have one of those readers somewhere. I think if
> it's
> plugged into something with power it doesn't need its own power, but I need
> to check that.
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> From: shel...@googlegroups.com [mailto:shel...@googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Bill Dyer
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:14 AM
> To: Richard W. Skudlarek
> Cc: Teresa Gallagher; shel...@googlegroups.com;
> bobpark...@peoplepc.com; Cab...@valassis.com; Lynn T. Reid; Peter
> Conway; Sheri Dutkanicz; Terrance Gallagher
> Subject: SheltonCC Re: Batteries for Deer Cams
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> Only one card reader?
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> And is it battery operated?
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> On 12/21/09, Richard W. Skudlarek <skud...@snet.net> wrote:
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> What kind of card does it take? I have a card reader for various types.
> Used
> in conjunction with a laptop or notebook, you could view the card on site.
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> Teresa Gallagher wrote:
>
> Here's an FYI on the deer cams for anyone who gets involved with these in
> the future.
> www.sheltonconservation.org <http://www.sheltonconservation.org/>
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Teresa Gallagher
occurred to me (certainly not recordkeeping or an internet connection).
thomas.h...@gmail.com
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Teresa Gallagher
frustrated that I have Powerpoint on my computer and have a Powerpoint
presentation on Trails that I've only been able to use once due to having no
laptop. It's funny that we have Powerpoint installed on our computers at
City Hall but have no access to a laptop.
James W Tate
Its important for CC to communicate visually amongst ourselves and with BOA,
Mayor etc. and if that means we need a laptop / screen, ok! We should look
at that. It's a tool, and if Teresa can use to benefit CC on multiple
projects we should set it up properly ... just need to make sure we can
secure it!
Jim