Been fighting cams and cows but finally got some decent pics of deer.

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I bought one of those 4 pack of lithium packs with the charger. The charger simply doesn't work. But the battery packs are pretty awesome. I don't use the % on the app, I just wait for the cam to stop working, which can be way later than it gets to "1%". The battery packs charge with usb-c so I just always have a charged up one with me in my truck at all times.

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I’m about ready to go scorched earth on Tactacam on every hunting forum and Facebook forum.

I’ve got 18 cams, 17 solar panels(bought over 20), 24 battery packs, 15 varmint cables, 15 memory cards 32 gig Tactacam brand.

I can’t get these fricking GD cocksucking things to connect to the camera, solar panel and battery pack to charge. Half of them work and say connected to external and the other half just drain the battery pack. I spend $2500 a year for cell cam service and another $1000 for maintenance between new cams, solar panels that last a year or for at most.

frick those figs.

Great buck, hopefully you get him this winter.

Wise Eye for the win.

Beautiful buck.

This is my life

Feel like I’m ordering tons of shite multiple times a year just to keep up. According to Tactacam I messed up and bought around 15 to battery packs off Amazon for $25 vs $50 for Tactacam brand and apparently the off brand are hit or miss for sinking up to be charged by the solar panel.

I still think Tactacam is trash because I feel like I’ve got some Tactacam batteries and they still won’t charge with the Tactacam solar panel. I’m in the process of buying all new battery packs from Tactacam and I’m up to around 7 or 8 now.

Anyone in the Houston area I’ll give you all the old battery packs once I finish replacing them. Wouldn’t be a bad deal if you have cams and are close to your cams. I’m just too far away from my ranch and lease to have the packs drain and I get a ton of pics daily. Would work well if you had a 5 minute delay and be cheaper than batteries.

Yes sir.

They need to experience it to see the difference.

2nd vote for the homemade panel setup.

I only run 2 cameras year round but I have an All Seasons solar panel & battery on each and have yet to have a problem with either.

I was told when I bought the cameras to not keep batteries in them if you run the solar panels and external battery setup.

I run 4 Tactacam 3.0s. Got each one to connect to their solar panel when I was re-setting them up at the house a few weeks ago before I went to put them out. Now only two of them are connected to the solar panel. Went back out this weekend to mess with them/unplug and replug the solar panels but they still aren't working

And I forgot to turn one back on before I left yesterday

ETA: And don't even get me started on video request being a total crapshoot.

Pretty much same results for me, I run 8 of the 3.0. There is always one that is screwed up at any one time, went down and screwed with one today, not working again already. I had 2.0 that worked pretty well for 2+ years before quiting in the ice event last year. I'm ready to go another route, bought a couple cell/security cams I'm going to put up when the season rolls around. The live view should be interesting, not even sure how the image capture is going to work. Can't be no worse than what we have now.

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Decided to do a shite this afternoon and it did not disappoint.

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Surprised that didn’t scare them away.