Lithium AA batteries in trail camera

[beamernc]

Do any of y'all use lithium AA batteries in your trail cameras? I put some in my cameras up in the mountains and they have been showing 99% battery life until Saturday and one camera would not work. Bought some new batteries and put in it and it works fine. I brought the batteries home and checked them and 6 measured 1.53V, 1 measured 1.5V and 1 measured 1.38V.

I now that the lithium ones seem to die suddenly, but the battery percentage never dropped below 99% until it died. Do you think the one battery at 1.38V was low enough to keep it from working? I don't think they are worth the extra cost since they did not seem to last any longer.

 

[TRaGiK]

I run Energizer Lithiums in my cameras.

On standard alkaline batteries, they die within 2 months. On the Lithiums, I get 6 to 8 months out of them.

The biggest difference I see between lithium and alkaline is in cold conditions. A new set of alkalines I've had "die" within a week during cold weather, when daytime highs didn't get much warmer than 40. Once they warmed up inside the house, they worked perfectly for months in various devices.

As far as 1.38v causing a camera not to work, I don't know.

 

[kcult]

Here is a discussion that led me to purchase Amazon basics. I've been very pleased with them.

Hold on. Copy/paste didn't work just then.

Here ya go.

AA batteries

I need to get my trail cameras out and that means I need batteries. What is your go to battery, or do you just grab whatever's on sale or convenient? Maybe you have a brand that's not sold at China-Mart, but online instead? I seem to have good luck with regular ol copper top Duracell, but...

carolinafirearmsforum.com

 

[amnesia]

Amazon basics gets my vote. I also started running the rechargable amazon ones. Which net me good battery life.

 

[NCMedic]

Not trail cameras, but I use Energizer Lithium in my Blink cameras, it's what they recommend and I tried Alkaline batteries but I only got about 2 weeks out of them before they died.

I have had the same thing occur, new set of batteries and dead within a day or two. I actually just swapped out a set this afternoon that did similar to what happened to you. I probably go through somewhere between 100-120 lithium AAs a year and maybe have what you described happen twice a year.

Going to try these out to see if they have any longer lasting performance or are at least cheaper.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085RQRVLR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_lchOFb1YKGB10

Did you happen to test a new battery? My guess is that you got a bad batch. OCV of fresh batteries can range from 1.79 to 1.83V. A “good” battery will generally have an OCV
>1.74 volts. Any battery with an OCV <1.70 (after it has been allowed to recover) is
completely discharged. Although an alkaline battery may read “good” at 1.6 volts, this
reading on a LiFeS2 battery indicates the product has been discharged

 

[turkeydance]

her'e's some detailed information from another forum:

Massive post on where to get lithium-ion batteries everywhere in the world! Look at Post 2-5 for info, And Canada Post 123

So, after the failure that was the Liitokala Aliexpress stores scam by tricking people into buying genuine-looking 18650s. while they were in fact, fake counterparts with the same capacity, but with higher internal resistance, and different physical characteristics: As an example, we first...

budgetlightforum.com

example:
Watch out for the newer LTO (lithium titanate) chemistry cells. There are good genuine Toshiba SCIB cells and genuine 66160 YinLong cells but also many poor quality pouch cells and 66160 cells that have been recovered, typically with other brand names such as GTK. Now, GTK IS NOT a manufacturer, but a wholesaler of re-wrapped cells – these are sub-standard and often second hand. I purchased 100 × 66160 40ah LTO cells only to find out they were old used YinLong cells that were lucky to test out to 27amps and many fail to hold full charge.

 

[beamernc]

The lithium batteries were Energizers and they only lasted about 4 weeks.