Lithium batteries in trail cameras

Well after a nearly full season test using lithium in one of my trail cameras I think I’m pretty well sold on the idea. I used my two brownings as a test run this year as they are the only two exactly same cameras I have, the other there are all different brands/models. Put cameras out in late july. Other than turning them off to pull memory cards they have ran constantly since. When I pulled cards this afternoon I looked at the battery levels. The one using lithium batteries still came in at 100%, the other is one it’s second set and is down to 50% (Rayovac alkalines). I didn’t believe it at first and seeing as it cost about the same for an 8 pack of lithium as it did for a 48 pack of Rayovac that there was no way they would last long enough to be more cost effective. Swapping batteries isn’t a big deal for me, always keep a pack on the atv when checking just in case, but so far they are looking good. At there price they need to last longer than 6 sets of alkalines (3 years at 2 sets per year which is my average with alkalines), which is a pretty tall order, but there is something to not worrying about needing to change even if I always do go prepared to. I plan to keep running them till failure to see just how long they go. And the big kicker is the camera with lithium in it has probably taken 3x the number of pictures as the other one.

I have run the lithiums in my hand-held gps and in the camera flash I use for charging glow plastics and glow jigs for three years now and not replaced them yet. I added them to my headlamp for this year’s deer hunting and I always had full power. I use the lithium line in my camera as well. Love the durability that these batteries bring.

six years ago,the kids gave me a weather station for Christmas,the first year I put in four sets of alkaline batteries in the unit that is mounted on the roof of one of my sheds.
it is on twenty four seven as it reads wind,temp,humidity,etc.and always transmitting data to the receiver in the house.

I got tired of replacing the batteries because the cold would knock them out rather quickly, so I bought eight of the lithium batteries.
the coldest I have seen it read so far was two years ago on Christmas eve day, negative twenty seven degrees.
the battery indicator showed that they were still at seventy five percent.
I have yet to replace that set of lithium batteries,they are now five years old.

I have ran lithiums in trail cameras because they work in subfreezing temps when the alkalines really suffer.