Battary life ...is very very short :(

[jumana]

Ok,so these battaries are not cheap,just bought 4 lithium ion for $18 a battary ...installed them,put the cam in position...turn on ...10 minutes later the battary shows %79....whhaaattt? Im regetting buying a wireless cam....its costing me an arm and a leg" i supposedly bought the cam to protect me from loosing my limbs"! If u know what I mean...why is draining the battary so fast? I have my settings on schedual,motion on from 1 am till 7 am. And battary saving mode that compromised video quality option selected.. My wifi sig is at 80%.... i tried to move the router closer,but its a hassle. So what to do in this situation? Any advice?

[Schorschi]

$18 a pop? Wow. Where do you shop? Is that US dollars or some other country's dollars? Or did you mean $18 for a set of four?

Decent one-way CR123 batteries can be had for around US$2. There are many threads on the topic of batteries. Try the search.

How about rechargeables? These are somewhere around US$5-6 per piece. Plus you need a charger.

I bought NiteCores from fasttech.com in January and a NiteCore D4 charger from Amazon USA. Pretty decent set up.

How much footage do you record per day?

[Good2U]

I bought 50 batteries for under $2 each when I first bought my cameras. But I'm still I on the original batteries from Christmas!

[TomMac]

For my avg use cameras on BEST video, they run 4 months... On a couple lightly use cams about 7.

Remember that spec use is 4 mins per day... these are motion - record type cameras and once set up properly work fairly well.

[jumana]

I made a mistake, i paid 22.99 US DOLLARS for 2, and 12.49 US DOLLARD for 1 from WALGREENS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG IM SO UPSET RIGHT NOW TO KNOW YOU GUYS ARE PAYING $2 ....WHAT A RIPOFF THEY ARE.............

it was hard for me to find rechargables in the stores from this size, thank you for the website link ...i really appreciate it.

[jumana]

yes i have the schedual running from 1 am till 7 am...not many clips recorded a night....but unfortunatly, i was overpaying for battaries ...im in shock....i paid $22.99 for two and for 1 i paid $ 12.49 from walgreens......i would have never complained if i knew they were cheap... it was hard to find this size.but i found some in BIG 5 2 for $4.99.........Thank u all for enlightening me.............what a ripoff............