Moultrie Trouble?

I have a few Moultrie GameSpy cameras that I’ve used for a couple years, and up until now I haven’t had any trouble with them. I went out this weekend to put the last one in a new area, and it wouldn’t work. I can put it in hand-held mode, push the shutter button, and it works. But as soon as I put it on auto and try to walk by for a test picture…I get nothing. I was wondering if anyone else has had trouble with these cameras? I know all the settings are right, it just doesn’t seem to be picking up movement. Any ideas?

You probably already checked this but for starters, are the batteries new or in the 70% or better rating. For mine if they get close to the 50s (%) in normal weather it’s time for a new set, 60s (%) when it’s freezing out.
Strange things happen when the batteries get low.
Sensitivity, performance, and even the start up mode for live pics refusing to kick in, even though the camera will cycle thru the settings, this can all be affected by low battery levels

Just trying to pick it apart in steps as far as troubles shooting

Waiting to hear back

Jeff

Thanks for the reply Jeff. Yes, the batteries were fresh out of the package on saturday. If you can think of anything else to check, please let me know. With everything else seemingly in working order, I don’t really know where to start to try to troubleshoot.

I had a Moultrie camera act up and I was as I was miles fomr anywhere. I took it home, swapped SD cards and Wahlah it worked just fine. Just an idea.

What I would try is to take a minute and “reprogram the camera” just like the day you first did this.

Take your memory card out!

Turn it on

Start to reset all of your setting make sure you clear or delete the internal picture memory,then start resetting your time, date and picture settings

When all settings have been completely re-entered then.

You can now enter your memory card in the slot by the batteries – (make sure the card does not have a folder on it with your favorite pics saved from before) – this causes a big delay in the trigger speed

Going thru these procedures may clean out the glitch that’s in your system

Always make sure that you clear any internal picture memory before using a SD memory card, Note this step only has to be cleared the first initial time from there on shut off the camera pull the card that has a bunch of pictures slide in a card that’s empty and turn the camera back on wait for it to cycle thru the settings on its own, when the date comes back up hit the mode button and you are now live with 20+ seconds to get the cover down and walk out of the area.

Let me know how all this goes, hopefully the complete change of all numbers from the reprogram will get the glitch out of the camera.

Jeff

I appreciate the advice, I’ll give the reprograming a shot. I put a clean SD card in it…but I just left all the other settings as they were (since it was all set-up the way I wanted it, all I did was throw the card and fresh batteries in and expected it to work). Once again, thanks for the suggestions!!

Lets hope we can get it up and running without having to send it in.

Good Luck

I sure like mine

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You probably already checked this but for starters, are the batteries new or in the 70% or better rating. For mine if they get close to the 50s (%) in normal weather it’s time for a new set, 60s (%) when it’s freezing out.

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I just pulled one of my Moultrie’s today so I can place it in a new spot, the battery life is jumping back and forth from 70% to 65%. I leave my cameras out for two weeks at a time before I check them again. So Jeff in my situation would you use these batteries or change them out for new?

I would change the batteries out now, we are starting to get into the cold weather months and the frigid temps seem to pull hard on batteries. That and the fact of changing them now eliminates having to mess with the batteries in the woods after having everything set.

I have new batteries that are going in all 4 of my I40s this week 3 of them had batteries new from last Nov. 1st they ran the month of Nov. last year and then I fired them up again this May 2009 so the life span was very good and the 4th was new this May so I’m just changing that one with the rest also, I prefer knowing that when primetime rut gets here that all the action will be recorded in the cameras and not missed do to low power.

Jeff

my moultrie is a no flash and i have it set on two pictures per trigger. The first picture of the two shot series is always white and the second picture is fine. It does this everytime it takes a series of shots at night. Anyone else have this problem?

NB

natureboy

I am hoping someone may join the discussion I have not experienced the first picture being white then a normal picture.

This may be one for Moultrie’s tech dept.

Jeff