The truth about "The Truth"

[wooly]

My Primos "Truth cam" has been chewing through batteries lately even though it's been registering very few pics.

I was suspisious when it started flashing

"low batts" the day after I replaced them with some freshies and returned the next day to find them drained again.

I decided to pop the hood and have a look inside to see if I could get to the heart of the matter. To my surprise, I couldn't even locate the camera in there,lol.

The problem turned out to be the spring tension on the negative battery terminal wasn't holding them together tight.....or at least that's what I hope it was.

365 pics of a coon family last night at the cornfield and battery life is still at 99% even using all 60LED's.

Man, I felt like a blonde whos car just broke down when I opened this baby up!

Next operation on schedule is a heart transplant from a Wildgame IR4 to a IR5!

[Cabin Fever]

YIKES!! Yeah, that's not quite what I would have expected to see inside one either! Sounds like you have the problem figured out though! Nice detective work!

[Lawdwaz]

365 pics of some coons wouldn't please me. How long were they around, 2 days?

And D batteries, do many cameras run those? They can get expensive!!

My two cams take AA's (8 each) but they seem to last quite a while.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Thats the older Truth cam. The new ones use AAs. I replaced the LCD screen in one of my Moultrie I60s, which is a bigger cam than that, and theres not much in there either. If they went with a rechargable lithium battery pack instead of regular batteries, they could make these cams the size of a cell phone. The batteries are what takes up all the space.

[fasteddie]

I hadn't seen Tops brand batteries before .

I have some older WildView cams that take the AA batteries and eat them up . Have a few that use the "C" batteries and they are okay . The "D" batteries seem to last a long time in one of my Moultries and last for several months .

[growalot]

you should send an E-mail to Primos...tell them what you found and the fix......They may thank you with a gift....That is if your warranty is expired...other wise ...well you know...lol

[Geno C]

i stepped away from cams with big batteries, i never had great luck with battery life. Now i spend a little more and get the Bushnell cams with the AA. I buy the rechargeable ones and thats all i use. You should send an email to Primos and see what that say