I am going to try that hot wheels 6v battery trick! what kind of wire do you recommend I use from the aligator clips to the battery?

Schobs, is that normal battery life for that camera? I have the 3.1 mp Moultrie and I can get MONTHS out of a freshly charged battery. I had it out once for 2 months and it was still at 80%. Maybe it's the battery or charger that you're using, or the camera is defective??

The only batteries you can use with the moultrie cameras are 6 volt. But there are different 6 volt batteries. The batteries for the barbie cars vary from about 9.5 amp / hr to 12 amp / hr. But there are larger amp / hr batteries.I own three cameras and had solar chargers on them all. That worked pretty well, but my cameras take a lot of pics ( from about 300 -600 per week each ) , and that will drain the batteries even with the solar chargers. One thing about the moultries, if the battery ever gets too low, even with the solar chargers, it will go to "battery low" and stop taking pictures. When the battery is charged back up from the solar chargers, it will not start taking pics again until the power switch is turned off and them back on, thus resetting the camera's internal battery meter.

One thing I did, I ordered some 6 volt, 36 amp / hourbatteries, and placed them in hard plastic water proof storage containers from walmart in the hunting / fishing section for about 9.00 each. I got somealligator clip leads from the automotive section at walmart that are about 30 inches long and cliped them to the clips inside the cameraand then to the tabs on the batteries. ( be sure to keep the clips away from each other inside the camera, I used small diameter pipe wrap, or they will sparkand can damage the camera. )

The batteries are 36 amp/hr compaired to regular 4.5 amp/hr batteries.Devide 36 by 4.5 and that number will be the multiple of how many times these batteries will last you over your regular 4.5 amp/hr batteries. Mine have gone from about 4 days with 4.5 amp/hr to about 3 weeks with 36 amp /hr batteries.

I bought my batteries on ebay, and paid 22.00 each and about 10.00 shipping each. But they have saved me a bunch of money already in gas just going out to my lease to change out the batteries. You canalso do a search for them on the net. I got the PM 6360 rechargable lead acid batteries. There is also a PS 6360 that is the same.

I also use 1 gigSD cards that I got at office depot on sale. Thay put them on sale fairly often for about 20.00 - 25.00 each.

Good luck guys.

Merry CHRISTmas and God Bless.

SuperRedHawk, yea i usually only go about 3 weeks max before i check my camera, and in warmer weather ive yet to have a dead battery when i checked, except for the cheapo batteries i used because i forgot my rechargable one weekend. My camera has had some problems with the SD cards, when i put a couple of them in it says SD LOCKED and it wont take any pictures, and i know its the camera cuz my buddy has the exact same cam and the cards work fine in his camera, but i got a 1 gig card for $15 from a buddy of mine that seems to work fine. If im still havin problems with the SD cards i'll send it back to moultrie to get it fixed after the bucks lose their antlers, until then i'll manage.

you guys have any prolbems with the camera spitting the sd cards out?? i got one that won`t take any brand of card consistanly one brand will work one day and another will work the next and the first one won`t..