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I absolutely love this. Well done ! If I set a camera with 1 picture every 30 minutes, how long would the battery last ? Can I set it up outside, will it take a beating under the sun and rain ?

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The best way to calculate the battery life is in terms of photos. It can take a minimum of 50k photos on a single charge, so 50k photos * 30 minutes == 2.8 years. The battery self-discharge will deplete before that though, so I'd expect 12-24 months.

Note though that the SD card can only fit 20k photos, so the battery typically lasts longer than the SD card, and after that the oldest photos are overwritten!

All of this is answered in the first 100 words of the website.

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