Battery Life - More than 2 weeks?
Hello... I've been running my Spartan Ghost on a property 4 hours away. However, I have been getting less than 4 weeks (this last time only 2 weeks) off of the batteries. I'm even using Energizer Lithium batteries which are quite expensive.
This is quite frustrating, not only because of the cost of the batteries, but also the fact that I'm not getting any images from my property (which was the whole idea in the first place.) On top of that, I'm paying for cell service that is not even being used.
I only get 10 or so pictures a week. I have it set on 5mp pictures and large thumbnail size.
Please let me know if there is something else I should be doing here.
Thank you in advance for you help,
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Make sure that power saving is ON.
Do you have any scheduled events set? I have all my cameras send pictures at 9 AM, 3 PM, and 9 PM, and status reports at midnight, 3 AM (takes care of time changes), 7 AM, noon, and 6 PM. I know some people who use all 10 scheduled events.
Can you please post a picture of two from the camera as well as a screen shot of the status report, including the battery/signal strength indicators down through the SD card info?
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Your batteries are dead, dead, dead.
I don’t know why the lithiums aren’t lasting, but they’re not providing any power at all at this point. Do you see the 3.52 for internal? Your internal battery is dead.
Ignore the battery indicator and the P number on the info strip. The critical info is those two voltage numbers.
https://support.spartancamera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043534053-Ghost-battery-information
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Ok... so what do I do about it?
This will be the 4th set of lithium batteries I will have to put in it since september. That's pretty expensive.
When I go back to my property in a few weeks, I will install new batteries and turn on power saving, but do you have any other ideas? I purchased Spartan because it was said to be the absolute best, but this battery situation has become quite troublesome.
Any further help is appreciated.
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That is about the usual battery life I get with Lithium's as well. I have my camera set to Photo + Video and probably get 50 photos a week, request 4-5 videos a week, and have 2 scheduled events a day. Pretty underwhelming but when the camera is fully charged it works as expected minus not sending a pic here and there. Look at getting an external battery, I have heard the 6V 12AH is the way to go
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Greg, with the standard model cameras with power save turned on I would say you should get 1500-2000 pics on a set of lithium batteries if the signal is decent. A lot of times it can be as many as 2500 depending on day vs night images. The 6v 12ah battery set ups are definitely a big help with the battery life, especially since the battery is rechargeable. The Spartan battery box with the converter in it is even better than that. I get 6 months and 8000 transmitted pictures from my camera with the Spartan box on it.
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