joeyd50 Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Does anybody know if you can use a car or deep cycle marine battery on these cameras that accept external batteries, I thought 12 volts is 12 volts and 6 volts is 6 volts, no matter how big the battery, its still 6 or 12 volts, I would think the larger batteries would outlast any of the smaller amp batteries. Thanks Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? I would contact the manufacturer of the camera and ask them before hooking up that kind of amperage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? [ QUOTE ] I would contact the manufacturer of the camera and ask them before hooking up that kind of amperage [/ QUOTE ] I think the amperage will burn the camera up! I never heard of anybody hooking a camera up to a deep cycle battery before! Not unless the camera has some kind of reducing cable like that of a phone charger. Better re-think this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I would contact the manufacturer of the camera and ask them before hooking up that kind of amperage [/ QUOTE ] I think the amperage will burn the camera up! I never heard of anybody hooking a camera up to a deep cycle battery before! Not unless the camera has some kind of reducing cable like that of a phone charger. Better re-think this one! [/ QUOTE ] Would have to agree with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? Actually joeyd50 is correct. 12 volts DC will run your 12 volt camera regardless of the source. You could use 8 D cells, 2 6 volt lantern batteries, a 12 volt car battery, a 12 volt deep cycle battery, or even a 12 volt battery charger. Current is determined by the load the device places on the source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarvDog Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? Yeah...no idea here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? [ QUOTE ] Actually joeyd50 is correct. 12 volts DC will run your 12 volt camera regardless of the source. You could use 8 D cells, 2 6 volt lantern batteries, a 12 volt car battery, a 12 volt deep cycle battery, or even a 12 volt battery charger. Current is determined by the load the device places on the source. [/ QUOTE ] BTW! Is this a regular camera, gam cam, or what? My digital camera takes four 1.5v batteries. That would be 6v total. If I were to hook it up to a 12v deep cycle I would think it would fry! I am thinking this camera is a game cam that has a 8 battery system. I still would like to know weather or not a deep cycle can be used without harm to the electronics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyd50 Posted April 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? The camera is a Wildview Extreme II with a 12 volt external plug. I just thought this was a good question if I had to put a camera out for a long time. Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtechTurkeyHunter Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? The money you would spend on a deap cycle battery could easily be spent on a solar charger and battery for your camera ... its what we use on our feeders and cameras ... no way would I hook up that kinda amps to a camera ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? The camera might have a 12 volt jack, but is that for a 12 volt hookup that is converted or is the camera truly operating on 12 volts? I dont think too many cameras or any that I know of run on 12 volts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? Ok folks, trust me on this one. My degree may be from 25 years ago, but it is in electronics. If your camera (or any electronic device) is designed to operate on 12 volts dc, then it doesn't matter to the device where the 12 volts comes from. Just as long as it's the exact supply VOLTAGE that the device requires. Current, which is the rate of flow of voltage measured in amps, is totally dependant on what the device requires (requests) from the supply. Just because a battery or other power source may be capable of supplying several amps of current doesn't mean the device connected to it will pull all of those amps. Think about this for a minute - Ever use one of those little pocket DC testers on your car that has the tiny light bulb in it? How much current do you think that miniature bulb is rated for? Maybe 1/10 of an amp? Definitely a heck of a lot less than your trailcam, but you can place it across a car battery and it will light up just fine. But if you hook 2 car batteries in series then place the tester across it you will blow the bulb, because now you're hitting it with 24 volts dc. Just make sure your battery voltage exactly matches your camera's rated voltage and you can use any type of battery you want. BTW - Maybe I should start a thread to teach beginning DC Theory? Ohm's Law anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? [ QUOTE ] BTW! Is this a regular camera, gam cam, or what? My digital camera takes four 1.5v batteries. That would be 6v total.If I were to hook it up to a 12v deep cycle I would think it would fry! [/ QUOTE ] CORRECT! If your digital camera uses four 1.5v batteries, DO NOT hook it up to a 12v car or deep cycle battery. You could (assuming you knew how to take it apart) however, hook it up to a 6v lantern battery and make it operate correctly. Wouldn't be very convenient though. [ QUOTE ] I am thinking this camera is a game cam that has a 8 battery system. I still would like to know weather or not a deep cycle can be used without harm to the electronics? [/ QUOTE ] If those 8 batteries totaled up to 12v, then yes you could use a deep cycle without harming the electronics. The electronics won't know and won't care if the source is a single deep cycle battery or 8 little 1.5v batteries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? Ok! I am getting it! Slowly, but getting it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] BTW! Is this a regular camera, gam cam, or what? My digital camera takes four 1.5v batteries. That would be 6v total.If I were to hook it up to a 12v deep cycle I would think it would fry! [/ QUOTE ] CORRECT! If your digital camera uses four 1.5v batteries, DO NOT hook it up to a 12v car or deep cycle battery. You could (assuming you knew how to take it apart) however, hook it up to a 6v lantern battery and make it operate correctly. Wouldn't be very convenient though. [ QUOTE ] I am thinking this camera is a game cam that has a 8 battery system. I still would like to know weather or not a deep cycle can be used without harm to the electronics? [/ QUOTE ] If those 8 batteries totaled up to 12v, then yes you could use a deep cycle without harming the electronics. The electronics won't know and won't care if the source is a single deep cycle battery or 8 little 1.5v batteries. [/ QUOTE ] While I am not a licensed electrician nor do I have a degree in electronics, I do know maybe just a little about electronics and electricity. My point is that the 12 volt supply probably has an adapter to convert it to 6 volts where the jack is coming in, just like the cigarette lighter adapters for cell phones and other items. That is all. Sure the din jack could be wired direct to a 12 volt supply, but I would not suggest rigging a car battery to the camera without first knowing that it was in fact a 12 volt system. I am not familiar with the gameview, but most trail cams, at least the ones I have and have seen operate on a 6 volt system. btw, some cams do operate on 8 aa batteries, but are setup to still run as a 6 volt system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Re: car or deep cycle marine battery? I also do not know the internal operating voltage of the Gameview. What I'm stating is purely theoretical based on his original post saying that the camera was a certain voltage. I would be surprised if a device as simple as a trailcam operated at anything other than the voltage of the combined batteries, but it is theoretically possible. Of course if it was me, I'd meter across the exit point of the battery pack and determine the voltage there, then splice in my external power source at that point. That way, if there were any voltage adjustments, they would still occur normally inside the camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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