Rechargeable battery deal
Well, I just bought my Cuddeback No Flash Camera. I've been using Moultries for two years with rechargeable batteries and was determaned to use them in my new Cuddy so here's what I did. First I bought some 1 and a quarter inchdia. wooden dowel rod and cut it into two lengths of 4 and 3/16" I think it was. The length of two "D" size batteries. Then I soldered a copper penny to a length of red wire and the other dowel had the black wire and soldered penny. The pennyswere opoxied to each dowel so they served as the batteries in the cuddy. The pennys made the necessary contact with the cam's contacts and the positive and negitive wires were used to hook up to an external battery. In this case, I am using a 6 volt battery, rechargeable of course. I have read that some of you are using the 14MAH 6V battery obtainable from Radio Shack and BatteriesPlus. I called Batteriesplus and got a price of $26.95 for that battery. I then drove to our Radio Shack and the salesman didn't have any of the 6V batteries in stock but he took the time to find what I needed in his computer at their warehouse. You won't believe what he found for me and I hope it isn't a mistake as I ordered two of them right away to be shipped to my home next week. They have 6V 4500MAH for $15.99. That's right, 4500MAH batteries and they are not any bigger than a regular 6V rechargeable battery.That's like a hundred times longer lasting than a 4.5MAH battery. If it is indeed a mistake, then of course I'll get my money back but I have the spec page printed from the store showing it. I just wanted to pass this on to you guys that have 6V systems and may be looking for a long life battery. Sorry for the long post.
BBO