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DigitalEye Trail Mode™Feature
Why use
Trail Mode™?
Trail Mode™ is
the perfect feature for a Trail Camera setup over a
"trail". The idea of a "trail camera" is
to capture all of the animals traveling down a trail together, and
not just the first animal. As most of us know after spending hours
in the woods watching deer from a tree stand for example many deer
travel in groups. Weather this be a doe with several fawns in the
spring, bachelor groups of bucks in the summer, mature buck
following doe in the fall rut season, or deer herded up in the
winter.
The problem is that most of the popular commercial game cameras made
today have a minimum PIR delay of 1 minute (this means that the
2nd photo can't be taken for another 60 seconds), and most are
very slow to take the first photo upon a motion trigger, which makes
them rather useless for a "trail camera". Even if your
trail camera setup has a PIR delay setting of say 10 seconds chances
are you're still going to miss many of the animals moving down a
trail together, and especially so if they are moving fast since the
camera will have to power back up and be made ready to shutter the
photo. This alone can add an additional 3-4 seconds.
Note: This is not "Burst Mode" or "Double
Photo" mode. Burst Mode on some of the commercial
systems will take 2-3 photos within seconds of each other. This
means every time an animal walks by you get 2-3 quick photos, and
thus you end up with a lot of unwanted photos! This only takes the
photos you want - of that next animal.
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How it works
When your PixController board is setup in Trail
Mode™ it will capture the first photo upon a motion event, but it
will leave the camera powered up and in a mode where it can take the
second photo within 1/10 of a second upon a motion event. It will
keep the camera in this mode for a 30 second period of time, and if
no motion event happens within this time it will power you camera
down. However, if there is a second motion event it can take a photo
within 3 seconds from the first photo and trigger the second photo
within 1/10 of a second upon the motion even trigger. If this
happens the 30 second window is bumped out another 30 seconds to
capture the third animal in the same manner. This will not effect
battery life much since at most it will add 20 seconds or so to the
time the camera is actually powered up. It should result in no more
than a 2% - 3% reduction in camera battery life.
Remember to always keep your digital camera's LCD screen off and
review mode off when placing it into your trail camera. This will
save a tremendous amount of battery power and let you keep your
system working for many weeks.
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Take More Photos!
Actual photos from a
PixController DigitalEye™ Trail Camera setup in Trail
Mode™ showing 5 photos taken in less than 25 seconds. All
photos are motion triggered.
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Phone: 724-733-0970 
