Batteries draining too fast (2 days)

[1kevinvega]

Cameras were showing low battery. I bought a new 16 pack of batteries and replaced them. All four cameras drained within 48 hours. Assumed it was a bad batch of batteries. Went out bought a new set of Energizer batteries, replaced them and toggled all the cameras Off. Purpose of that was to toggle them back On when I had time to monitor them to see what was causing them to drain. Toggled them On 2 days later, all drained! Prior to those two sets of batteries cameras worked fine. Software was up to date. Any thoughts or comments appreciated.

[jguerdat]

Is your base being turned off at any point? If so, don't - the cameras waste the batteries trying to connect to the nonexistent base.

[1kevinvega]

Hello J,
I will have to trouble shoot that again. When I changed the first set, all cameras connected fine and were on a scheduled timer. The second time I replaced the batteries all cameras connected, recorded and showed 100% charge. Everything looked normal as previous times except that they drained too fast these last few times. I may have to buy another pack and try one camera at a time. I would like to rule out any other possibility before I keep dumping money into those batteries. Thanks for the reply.

[StephenB]

Might be worth getting some of the tenergy rechargeable batteries.

[jguerdat]

Since they used to work fine, I would look for some wireless device near your base that could be causing interference. Could be a new device or one that got moved. You could also try moving the base away from the router. As a last resort, remove everything from Settings, My Devices and start fresh. To avoid buying more batteries, just add one camera as a test.

[1kevinvega]

Hi Stephen,

Yes. I actually had them before but the movers wouldn’t pack them up so I’m waiting to get final settled somewhere before I buy them again. I found a mixture of 4 left over batteries from previous purchases. I will try those on one cam only.

[1kevinvega · Accepted solution]

Jguerdat thank you. I will try those recommendations. Hopefully I get a chance today otherwise I’ll have to wait until next week due to a trip coming up.