Whitetail EagleEye

The Whitetail EagleEye is a digital trail camera that we put together ourselves using the Sony P41 from our old EagleEye trail camera and a kit from YetiCam.

The EagleEye was our first digital trail camera that we purchased that used a real digital camera. The EagleEye was a great trail cam for us for quite a few years. In the summer of 2012 ants infested the camera case. I sprayed it with bug spray and I think I was way too generous ruining the control board. Thus we were left with a perfectly good Sony P41.

We have a couple of trail cams that utilize YetiCam control boards and they have performed well for us. YetCam offers kits for making trail cameras that provide everything except the camera and we had a good P41.

Using a YetiCam kit and our P41 from the EagleEye, we made the Whitetail EagleEye.

We already knew the picture quality was good. The only problem we could have had would be in the construction and Ryan did a good job so there is no flash bleed or any other problems. Since the camera is the same camera that was in the original EagleEye you can take a look at this cameras pictures here.

Trigger speed is about average for our trail cameras that use real cameras. It wasn't blazing fast but on the other hand it's fast enough that it won't be a concern when I set it up.

The YetiCam control boards have run well for us on alkaline 9 volt batteries and the P41 runs on rechargeable NiMh batteries. We should get a few hundred pictures with the camera batteries and a few months with the 9 volt in the control board.

The YetiCam kits are a pipe-through design, which provides excellent tree attachment using a Python Locking cable which can be purchased elsewhere.

The YetiCam control board has eight time delays ranging from 15 seconds to 30 minutes. This trail cam also has the capability of taking two pictures per activation and a rapid pic mode that will leave the camera powered up for 30 seconds to take additional pictures upon movement as soon as the camera flash is recharged.

You can use the kits form YetiCam to make your own digital trail cam. They're available for several different trail cameras. We used a Sony camera from an older camera, but you can also buy a camera and hack it yourself, which we've also done in the past. The kits vary in price from $128 to $145 depending on the camera you use. If you want to buy a camera to hack yourself you can get them various places. We've purchased them at Ebay in the past. Check out the boards and kits at YetiCam.





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