welcome back to Steve Robb reviews look what we're doing here today I'm going to hook up one of these
to my solar panel I've got a 7 watt solar panel here I'm gonna show you how I'm gonna do it I'm
gonna get it all rigged up here and let's test it out and see so there is a little port on the
top here and you see what I got sitting on the top there yeah that's one of them connectors so
let's take a look and see how you would actually set one of these up because this takes 8 double-a
batteries and I want to leave this up all year round and see what kind of pictures I
get so let's go take a look and see how you would actually set one of these up to run off your solar
panel and I've got a small little battery let's see how this all going to work out well let's
start off right here the first thing you need is a voltage converter to go from 12 volt this
is a small 12 volt battery rechargeable battery and to 6 volt this particular unit here runs off
of 6 volts or the 8 double-a batteries so as you can see on the top here there's a little bit of a
port to plug this in now you'll have to get your connectors these are the ones that I got off of
ebay guys look at the bag I got here for dollar 88 and this is the connector here and you could
see that there's just made for two conductors very simple to do and so I've got the converter
hooked up and you could see it's hooked up to 12 volts there and when we put the test leads
on here you'll be able to see I can hold all this at once well there we go six point one volts and
that's exactly what you need so so far we've got everything all set up the only thing I have to do
is wire this all together and of course have my solar panel actors go right on here as well and
that's pretty well it it is going to completely eliminate me putting any batteries and you take
a look in here well if I can get this open yeah so this word takes all the batteries and I'm not
gonna have to do any of that so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna just loosely wire this all
together and show you that there is actually no batteries in here and we're gonna plug this
in and we're going to see how it works okay we're back I hope this all makes sense to you I'm going
to try and explain this the best I can here we got our voltage converter from 12 volt and everything
on this side is 6 volt so I got two pigtails here this will go for the solar panel and so I
got it hooked up to the battery connections here and we'll just check to make sure so the outside
of this will be the ground this will be the power and we got six point one volts and we'll come over
to our trail cam here let's just open it up and I'll just cuz you know somebody's gonna say okay
well well this thing run without batteries in it yeah okay so there's no batteries in there right
guys okay and the plug is on the bottom so it's plugged in there we go it's plugged in and the
power switches here there we go guys it's as easy as that check that out so it's powering up right
now guys that's it right there and how easy is that to do I think it's just terrific you know
just this little plug 10 for a buck eighty eight I think you know and I don't have a 2 amp inline
fuse I am going to put that in the future now you can see I got these are all just quick connectors
here which makes it easier because I am gonna make a special box for this well I hope you like
that this is going to be mounted in a spot and I'm gonna make a special box I'll try to I'll try to
video the special box I'm going to make because a lot of you if you ever notice you have these
trail cams and when you go and check it it's got like 500 pictures of absolutely nothing it seems
like if a stick moves and the you know in its way or if you're in the path of the Sun all this kind
of stuff it takes too many false pictures I've tried orientating it from east to west to have
it actually facing north all kinds of different positions and no matter what happens yeah I'm
getting all kinds of false pictures I've tried all kinds of different ways I think I found a pretty
good idea and it's going to be a special box all of this is going to be in it and the solar panel
of course is going to be sitting on top now the connection for the solar panel is very easy it
just goes to the two pigtails that I have there on the on the battery and you know what it's as
simple as that so I look forward to showing you this special box and the idea this is all going
to be incorporated in it in one set up so I can bring it up there and leave it out there all
year round so thanks for joining me here today I hope you like this and if you haven't seen
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