Cuddeback's Cuddelink
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roymunson
5 year old buck +
Aaaaaaand just like that, i got an email at 4:25 pm with pictures dating back 2 days.
something fishy going on, but if its working now, i'll take it
john volkman
5 year old buck +
sometimes all it takes is to grab the end of the spring and stretch it out a bit and your contact will be good again. Over time, springs can fatigue a bit. Also oftentimes, different brands of batteries are different overall lengths. This results in the springs being compressed more from one brand or another.
roymunson
5 year old buck +
Come to find out my hunting buddy was down and messed with the auxiliary battery connection and it started working.
Gotta have power to em to make em work.
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
Just wondering if this is still working well for you? I was about to pull the trigger on one, and thought I would recheck with someone that has one before spending the money.
Once of my cuddelinks started going crazy this morning...at 8:12am it started to take 1 picture every 1 to 3 minutes.
Before this, it would only take pictures when animals were in view (about 10 times per day). Now since 8:12am it has taken a photo literally every 1 to 3 minutes.
Sometimes the gap is 1 minute, sometimes 2 minutes, never more than 3 minutes. None of the pictures of any animals. I know it's windy today, but none of my other 5 cameras are doing this.
So now it's 5:30pm and I have hundreds of pictures of the ground.
The camera is a couple hours away. Any idea what's causing this? I don't even know what setting to change. It's been running fine at that location for 80 days no problems.
Thanks in advance.
Before this, it would only take pictures when animals were in view (about 10 times per day). Now since 8:12am it has taken a photo literally every 1 to 3 minutes.
Sometimes the gap is 1 minute, sometimes 2 minutes, never more than 3 minutes. None of the pictures of any animals. I know it's windy today, but none of my other 5 cameras are doing this.
So now it's 5:30pm and I have hundreds of pictures of the ground.
The camera is a couple hours away. Any idea what's causing this? I don't even know what setting to change. It's been running fine at that location for 80 days no problems.
Thanks in advance.
The wind will do it.
Bpressley
5 year old buck +
Post some of the pics. Wind and sunshine/shadows will cause cams to trigger. It creates a moving heat signature just like an animal or person would.
I spent all day moving and tweaking camera set-ups. I had one that I wasn’t getting any pictures from but 100lb corn was gone. After a lot of troubleshooting, and walk testing, I moved camera up about 1ft, and it dramatically improved. Have to remember that camera lens is on bottom of camera. I also found if I removed my heavy Carhart shirt (bare skin), it detected me without fail!
I also installed a repeater on a tall shooting house. Everything linked with all good signals. Looking forward to seeing how it works out.
I also installed a repeater on a tall shooting house. Everything linked with all good signals. Looking forward to seeing how it works out.
Booner21
5 year old buck +
I have had 3 different cams do it they were so sent back to cuddeback for replacement. Totally screws the network especially when they have fresh batteries and extender packs
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FredG
5 year old buck +
That camera must be either female or gay... a male camera would have gouged his lens out!
I left myself open on that one lol, but it’s the truth!That camera must be either female or gay... a male camera would have gouged his lens out!
JLemon
5 year old buck +
I put my dual power bank out with tenergy rechargeable batteries and the cuddeback solar panel less than 3 weeks ago in an area that gets sunshine all day long. Today it went from OK to EXT-1 OK. I imagine that means the rechargeables are dead and it's running off the alkaline D cells. Pretty unacceptable for the amount of sunshine it gets.
john volkman
5 year old buck +
"OK" is your internal batteries "EXT 1" is your rechargeables- all cameras including the home need to be on 7.7 firmware for the dual power bank to be recognized. did you fully charge your rechargebales before deploying them ?
john volkman
5 year old buck +
how are you running solar on your dual power bank when the solar panel for that unit hasn't even been released yet? did you modify something or another panel to get it to work?
JLemon
5 year old buck +
The batteries were fully charged. So if it went from OK to EXT-1 OK my internal batteries went dead and it’s now running on the rechargeables? It’s not that difficult to modify a cable to work with this.
john volkman
5 year old buck +
more than likely the voltage went high enough on your rechargables for it to switch to them over from your internals, this would mean when you put your rechargeables in they weren't fully charged and the panel charged them up. you shouldn't even need to run internals when running the Dual power bank,(if you have a dualPB, im sure you read that in the manual) you can just run rechargables in 1 bank and alkaline ds' in the other, they are labeled as such right on the bank. it will use the ext 1 first then switch to ext 2. Modifying anything to make something else work can damage your camera by running the wrong voltage back into the camera . but if you are confident that what you are doing wont do that, have at it.
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JLemon
5 year old buck +
They were put on a charger until the charger said they were fully charged. My K camera is running 7.7 too.
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john volkman
5 year old buck +
read through the manual sheet that was included with the dual power power bank and it should make sense what is going on with your unit. since you are using it on a k , the voltage in the alkaline internals is typically higher than what rechargables can show- you should run the DPB with alkaline in one bank and rechargeable in the other for it to correctly switch from ext 1 to ext 2 on you report.
