Swamphunter Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 My Cuddeback had 195 images on in after 3 weeks out. I had a lot of deer and numerous coons, turkeys and even red squirrels. I also had a lot of just blank ones taken every 8-10 minutes for no apparant reason, even at night. The Complact Flash card was full in 3 days. What would cause all of these blank images? It had been VERY warm here (when the pics were taken), but still not sure if that would have cause it. Also thought maybe an animal outside of the flash range may have triggered it. It is a Cuddeback 3 digital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Trail cam question i would guess the heat, but I thought cuddebacks were not suppose to do that? But no 100% sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted July 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Trail cam question Anyone else?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Trail cam question Wouldnt think heat would cause false triggers at night. Just a guess Ken, but maybe the cuddeback is not triggering as fast as they claim and you have a animal walking past it before it snaps the shot. Seems the trigger speeds on the leaf river are slower when the batteries get a little low and I get more empty frames, so I try to keep the batteries fresh. Might be something to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetro Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Trail cam question Could be birds or somehitng flying by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Trail cam question [ QUOTE ] but maybe the cuddeback is not triggering as fast as they claim and you have a animal walking past it before it snaps the shot. [/ QUOTE ] Cuddeback tiggerspeed is really fast so I wouldnt think that would be the problem. But you never know. was there ANYTHING at all in the pics. Like maybe a mouse, rabbit or something small like that you may have just overlooked?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Buck Magnet 007 Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 Re: Trail cam question I had a problem with my 3.0 megapixel Cuddeback where it was taking picture no matter if there were animals in sensor zone or not. It would snap a picture over and over (at whatever I had the delay set at). Got it replaced for a new one and havn't had another problem yet! You definetly shouldn't have any false triggers, I honestly don't think that I had any false triggers when my camera was working properly and that was out of thousands of photos. As far as the trigger speed goes, trust me, the Cuddeback is every bit as fast as advertised, it is amazing. I spent more money on a Trail Mac digital because it claimed to be the fastest triggering digital game camera on the market and the Cuddeback blows it out of the water! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted July 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question I did see a couple of pics with red squirrels in the pictures. Also had what appeared to be a leaf in the top dead center of the pic over the lens. Could that do it? I thought they were only infrared? See the light blurry spot in the top center? That was a leaf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhtr1 Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question I thought I had a problem once with 67 pics taken back to back. The last pic was a butterfly in front of the camera. It seemed that every time he would flex his wings it would trigger a pic. The wing was covering the fresnal and not the camera so I didnt know what it was. Sometimes things like this happen. The other night I had a few with nothing then caught a pic of a bat flying in front of my cam. You just never know. I would clean the fresnal and put new batteries in it and try it again in the same place and see what happens. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popgun Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question I would lower the angle of your camera a little. The wind blowing the limbs on that tree may be enough to set off the sensors. ....popgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted July 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question [ QUOTE ] I thought I had a problem once with 67 pics taken back to back. The last pic was a butterfly in front of the camera. It seemed that every time he would flex his wings it would trigger a pic. The wing was covering the fresnal and not the camera so I didnt know what it was. Sometimes things like this happen. The other night I had a few with nothing then caught a pic of a bat flying in front of my cam. You just never know. I would clean the fresnal and put new batteries in it and try it again in the same place and see what happens. Good luck. [/ QUOTE ] Thanks, I did put fresh batteries in it, and the fresnal looked clean so kept my fingers off it. I did however fail to remove the branch (used for camo purposes), as I did not realize at the time without viewing the pics that there was a leaf in front. I will probably go back out next week and correct this. Thanks all, I believe this was probably what had occurred. I thought they worked on heat sensing alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted July 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question [ QUOTE ] I would lower the angle of your camera a little. The wind blowing the limbs on that tree may be enough to set off the sensors. ....popgun [/ QUOTE ] I'll try this also. This pic was cropped for size purposes. It actually shows the ground also. But I agree, I will angle it a bit more down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question Limbs or leaves can and will set off the cams Ken, dont know why I didnt think about that before. I similarly had some issues with false triggers on our leaf river and had also had the same problems with our stealth cam before. I trimmed the limbs back and removed some vegetation from the ground in front of the cam and that problem was solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTMMIKE Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question Let us know how it works for you now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowhtr1 Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Re: Trail cam question Yea, Let us know if this works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted July 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2006 Re: Trail cam question [ QUOTE ] Yea, Let us know if this works out. [/ QUOTE ] I sure will! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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