Batteries did not last long GG -attd

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LANCE PHILLIPS
I have several of these cameras and this is the first time I’ve seen this issue. Put brand new Energizer Lithium batteries in the camera 2 weeks ago. Camera had been taking pictures fine until I all of a sudden quit getting any. All the pics showed P5, and these batteries usually last a long time. Usually when the batteries are dead(and getting no pics) the camera will still will come on in setup mode. These were so dead it wouldn’t even come on. Any reason this camera would discharge the batteries so fast? I checked voltages on the dead ones and they were all considerably different. From 1.3 V to .3 V. The new batteries I just put in are all 1.65 V. Just trying to figure out why they discharged so fast. Also real time control is not in the on position.
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  • LANCE PHILLIPS

    Sorry title should be GC attb

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  • John Lockburner

    If you put new lithium in they should be higher than the 1.65. I wonder if maybe you got some bad batteries. How do the battery contacts look? If you are seeing .3 volts on a battery you may have some corrosion somewhere.

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  • LANCE PHILLIPS

    After I had changed out the batteries and checked the old ones is when I decided to pull the new ones back out and see what the voltage was. They were probably in the camera 10 minutes. That’s when I got the 1.65. When I just saw your reply I pulled the new ones out again, and now they are below 1.6. For some reason the camera is draining them really fast. I don’t see any corrosion at all.

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  • John Lockburner

    Is real time turned off in your camera settings?

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  • LANCE PHILLIPS

    It is off. I took off the mid plate between the batteries and saw no corrosion there either. Also took off the face plate and looked at it. Everything appears to be shiny and clean.

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  • John Lockburner

    Did you change the SD card lately? You can try defaulting the camera in it's menu, maybe it's stuck trying to do something, also cancel all pending commands. If that doesn't make a difference I would buy a cheap set of batteries and check the voltages and put them in the camera and leave it turned off and see if they drain. If they do it's got to be corrosion or a short somewhere.

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  • LANCE PHILLIPS

    I pulled all the LI batteries that I had got the 1.65 reading out of the camera the other day that I was posting about. I did not check them before I put them in the camera that day so I want sure what the voltage was. After I read your post about putting in some cheap batteries I figured I would just put those back in that were reading 1.65 the other day. I took a reading on those. Batteries before installed them and they were at 1.74. I then put them in the camera and left it in the house to let it take pictures when walking by for a few hours. Then I pulled them out and checked them they were at 1.6’s. I just checked those same batteries that have been out for a day and they are all at 1.74. They are the Energizer Lithium batteries. Also I had formatted and done a reset in the camera. The only thing I know to do is go retrieve a camera from the field and see if it does the same thing.

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  • John Lockburner

    It's not unusual for batteries to show a lower voltage right after being used and then recover. I would be curious if they did the same thing with the camera turned off. I would think they shouldn't.

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