Yeah I watched it already lol.
Since I turned off instant uploads, my battery gained 6%. But I feel I'm not getting near as many pictures.

 

Sorry it is the X60 pro.

 

Yeah I think the 60 has a bigger overall battery. Oddly enough, its more expensive on their website, but the same price as the x66 on Amazon.

 

OEA, do you have yours transmitting every picture or on a schedule? Please keep us informed if anything changes.
I was giving this camera some serious though to go in my back field with a solar panel installed.

 

Every picture.

 

We put one of these at the farm this past weekend with the solar panel. When the camera was put out it had 54% battery life. Its taken a hundred or so pics and the battery life today is at 93%. Pics look great day and night. I'm impressed so far but time will tell. I've been using the same Tactacam at my house for the last 4 years. It's been out 24/7 365 and hasn't missed a beat even after being ripped off a tree and slammed on the ground by a bear. 😤 The Gardepro has a long ways to go till it reaches that level of reliability.

 

Was the one you guys put up the x66 or the x60? I was watching the video and it looked like it was the x60

 

It's a real shame the battery life on this camera is atrocious, because it does take some nice pictures.
Had this guy show up this morning.

 

Personally, I have zero interest in cellular trail camera, but the Hunting Farmer just released a review on the new GardePro X66 cellular trail camera.

I'm not usually loyal to any brand, but I am currently using all GardePro E5 trail cameras (standard SD card camera) on my property. I used 5 of them to take an inventory of what's on my property. Since switching over to them, they have been the best trail camera I have ever used. I have bought them on sale ($39.99) most of the time, and you can't beat that price for quality "no glow" trail camera.

For those interested in cellular trail cameras, this review may be of interest to you.

Amazon prices for a GardePro X66 can vary from day to day, but the $62.99 price today is not bad for all the features this camera offers.

Cellular cameras are not my thing. I prefer simple, but I'm not exactly the norm either.

I have two - an E5 and an E6 non-cellular trail cams. Wife bought me the E5 a couple years ago for Christmas and I picked up the E6 on Amazon for under $25… Right now I only have the E5 deployed but will set the other out as time permits. For the $’s they are great IMO.

 

I have two - an E5 and an E6 non-cellular trail cams. Wife bought me the E5 a couple years ago for Christmas and I picked up the E6 on Amazon for under $25… Right now I only have the E5 deployed but will set the other out as time permits. For the $’s they are great IMO.

Those are some great bucks!

 

I can not, and will not recommend this camera. Picture quality is great, price is great, but the battery life is beyond terrible. Utilizes a rechargeable lithium battery pack, that you can not buy spares of. So, when it dies, you're stuck charging it for 12+hours. Planning on trying to send it back to Amazon and getting a refund.

 

So after reading this I have to guess that the solar panels would not keep it charged. Is that correct?

 

I am using the Wing Home solar panel off Amazon and it does either 6 or 12 volt recharging and has not had a single problem in 3 years usage 365 days a year.

 

That's the one I have. I'm just not sure if it's compatible with the gardepro. The gardepro uses rechargeable batteries, where my stealthcam relied on either a panel with a battery pack or ran off AA batteries. I'm not sure. I'll see what the battery looks like later if it's charged from the sun at all. I have the gardepro panel on order, will be here Sunday and I'll be up there hunting Monday, so it'll be swapped out then.

 

My Tactacam runs all year long with only the solar panel hooked up and stays at 100% even after several cloudy days. It is in a field where it gets plenty of direct sunlight though. No batteries are in it at all.
Try this on yours and see if it will run off the solar panel only.

 

The solar panel I have has a battery built in, the one that gardepro uses is just a solar panel that charges the onboard battery. So, I'm not sure if theres some weird stuff going on with battery to battery charging or not, it's also an off brand panel. I ordered the solar panel that they bundle with their kit to see how that works out. I'm concerned now because I went from 100% yesterday to now 62%. At this rate, it'll be dead by tomorrow.

 

Cameras been out a few days now. I'm averaging about 50+ pictures a day out of it. The night photos are far better than my stealthcam was, with far better distance. Stealthcam couldn't see beyond 20 yards, the sky was pure black, with no trees or anything visible. With the gardepro, you can make out the tree line in the background and even cloud cover. The image sensor on the gardepro seems much improved. That said, the battery level was hovering around 100% for the past few days, but it dropped to about 77% tonight. I have a solar panel hooked up, and today I believe was cloudy, but it should have had enough battery backup in the panel to run the camera for a few days before drawing off the camera battery. I'll see what happens after it sits in the sun for several hours.

 

So initial thoughts on this camera, yeah my stealthcam most likely had a malfunctioning flash. Night time pics are much brighter than what I had before. Similar times, 1 day apart, same mounting position. I don't know if the camera is as sensitive as the stealthcam is, but I'm still playing with the settings.

 

The Tactacam battery cartridge lasts about two thirds as long as the Eveready Ultimate lithium batteries, the after market cartridges last even less. I am in year two of also using the 12 volt battery in a cartridge box setup and so far it has worked very well. If I get three years out of it the cost will be half that of the lithium batteries.

 

About to go set mine out this morning. Was going to leave the stealthcam setup, but I don't have a spare mount for it. But, I also have several pictures already to compare to the new camera. If it works, great. If not, I only paid $50 for it and the first month of use is free. Worst case scenario I buy a new stealthcam or tactacam.

 

I've only had a couple issues with Tacticam (other than the battery life indicator which works about as well a gas gauge on a Harley) , but I've had really good tech support help with Tacticam also. They are easy to get ahold of and they are knowledgeable. They will even access the cameras and work on them remotely.

I don't know about tech support for Garde pro cameras. Mine have have been subjected to a lot of kind of lack of care abuse, like sitting out there with dead batteries occasionally or in a corner of my garage dead. Or occasionally finding one I forgot about somewhere in the field. Winter to summer summer to winter. I haven't had a single issue with them. I've had some for 5 years now. Wish the cell cams sounded better.

 

Running 8 Tactacams for my 4th year now. SK’s and XB’s. I’ve had decent luck using the lithium packs. Trying stand alone 12V 10AH lithium batteries in a waterproof ammo style box and chew proof cables with the lithium pack as a back up in 4 cameras this year to see how well they’ll do. Cover is too dense where they’re being used to add solar panels. Been having great success with the Tactacams.

 

I'm running an oem lithium battery pack with oem solar pack in a densely covered area. Even though it doesn't recharge much through Spring and Summer, the cam runs off the battery pack in the solar panel first. Once the leaves drop it gets a little sun. That combo has been out over a year untouched and showing 60% battery life.

 

I'm running a herd of Tactams If the solars are in full sun they last a long time. I've had some bad battery life results with the knockoff rechargeable batteries. The tactical rechargeable are better but still less life than the AA battery packs. The tactacams have so many features I think I burn batteries fast by getting pictures and videos transmitted to me and then HD pictures... So some of that lower battery life is cam pilot induced. This year I am trying to extend battery life and have them on pictures only and reporting once a day. That extends it out a lot. Keeping a herd of tactacams going for me is expensive.

I think the Garde Pros are great. I was running some of those with Spypoint cell units that you plug into the battery slot. The Spypoint battery life would go out 4 to 1 to the Garde pro. This year I have about 6 gardepros out there doing non-cell type pictures and videos. I think they really do a good job and nice videos for me and 8AA 's (is it 8 in there? Its been awhile since I put one out) run those things for a super long time.

 

I was late to switch over to cell cams. I didn't think I had decent enough service for them to work. Tried my first Tacta Cam Pro last year it worked great. I am running 5 now and love them. I also run several GradePro std cams that work great. Some are at least 4-5 yrs old.
I am hooked on cell cams now. Plan on adding 3 more later this year.

 

I picked up a new revel 3.0 that’s week . Picture are considerably better than my old gen 1s, I love that they work off what ever carrier that has best signal where they are.

 

I bought two of the x66 , the battery life is not great, one is at 36 percent after 3 weeks, the other is 59 right now at 2 weeks. Night pics are not good. IMO the best thing about the camera is the live stream.

 

I was thinking I had heard they were having battery problems. I bought one of their first cell cameras and returned it and guess I will hold off on this one too.

 

We use both TacTacam and Stealth cellular cameras 2 have solar panels the rest are the Lithium Battery Packs. This years a test using the solar panels hoping they work out given it’s a 70 mile drive to check and replace any batteries. Like both products also have several non cells that don’t eat batteries and are close enough to check on.

 

Let us know how you like it please.

 

Plan is to put it up next to the stealthcam and compare photos.

 

Just ordered an x66 pro earlier, was listed at 62.99, but then had a 20% off coupon that brought it down at $50 or so. Put my stealthcam deceptor out the other day and most of my night pics were terrible. Seems it's either getting moisture inside and fogging up or the IR flash just isn't working right. Reviews seemed solid, only complaints were battery life. I believe my solar panel will work with it, so hopefully that'll extend the battery life indefinitely.

 

I got my order in just in time. Ordered two and ironically Amazon gave me a 3 week ship date. Showed 3 left when I ordered & 2 days later the special was down.

 

Here in Georgia the woods are thick. I had mine in oak flats. Charged them fully up before deployz around 2 months they were dead. Also in the fall and winter. You have less daylight hours. You add in rain or storm days and it just wouldn’t work for us. Maybe a better brand of solar powered unit and higher wattage might change that but I went the way of external battery boxes and run 15 to 20 ah lithium batteries. They last a long time

 

I wonder if it was the solar panels on the Tactacam? Had a friend who had the same experience as you. We have some that are still running that have not been changed since we put them out last year (Spartan, GuardPro and one Browning that is a celuar) Also we do not do video but we get hundreds of pictures a week

 

Sorry for your poor Gardpro experience Retrievr.... I have 5 Pro's now and they take an excellent pic with good range...

As far as cheap,you get what you pay for thought...when cams get stolen as fast as they do ,Im gonna buy em as cheap as I can...