Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System Operation & User’s Manual

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• Page | 22 www.day 6outdoors.com About TLV Files The PlotWatcher Pro normally records one video file per day. When using the Mid - day Skip feature , it records two files per day – one before the skip period and a second afterw ards. Anytime the camera door is opened, the current file will be closed, and a new one will be created. The new file wil

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 6 www.day 6outdoors.com Camera Quick Start 1. Unpack your Pl otWatcher Pro and remove all protective film. 2. Insert 4 or 8 AA batteries into the upper, lower, or both compartments. Do not mix battery types in a given compartment. 3. Insert your SDHC memory card into the memory card slot . 4. Put the setting switches into the upper positions as shown below. Start/Stop: Light Based Midday Skip: None Interval: 5 Seconds

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 5 www.day 6outdoors.com Package Contents  PlotWatcher Pro Camera Unit  User Manual  Tree Strap  Installation CD What You Will Need 4 or 8 AA batteries  PlotWatcher Pro supports two banks of f our batteries. You can fill one or both. Alkaline s are recommended if average daily temperatures are above freezing. Lithium s are recommended if average daily temperatures are below freezing.  Rechargeable NiMh batteries (Low Self - Discharge type) can be

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 28 www.day 6outdoors.com Typica l Memory Card Capacity, expressed in DAYS  The camera will not stop recording when the card is full, but will delete the oldest file and resum e recording.  The range of days expected varies with the per frame storage size, which is affected by scen e detail.  Actual experience could be above or below these guideline ranges . Typical battery life, expressed in DAYS  For 8 Alkaline batteries in non - freezing conditions, or 8 Lithium batteries in

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 7 www.day 6outdoors.com Camera Interface: Status Screen, Navigation Buttons , and Selector Switches 5. Power on the camera by sliding the Power switch to the center position. 6. Set the Time and Date . Press the PAGE button to step through the settings pages to “Set Time and Date . ” Press the SELECT button to step through the fields o n the page. Use the UP and DOWN buttons to change values. After setting the Time and Date , press PAGE until you return to the s tatus screen. 7. That’s it! It’s a good idea to take some test vi deo before putting the camera in the field, to ensure everything is worki

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 18 www.day 6outdoors.com Mid - day Skip Options None The camera will run for dawn until dusk (in Light ba sed mode) or from Start Time until Stop Time (in Time based mode). 10am – 2pm The camera will shut down from 10am until 2pm in the middle of the day to conserve batteries and storage space. A separate file is created after the Mid - day Skip peri od, with an incremented ending letter in the file name to differentiate it . For example, on April 8, 2011, 110408AA.TLV would be the file name for the file created that morning, and 1100408AB.TLV would be the file name for the file created that afternoon . Custom The camera will shut down fr

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 14 www.day 6outdoors.com User Interface When you power on your PlotWatcher Pro, you will notice the Day6 logo and a version number displays while the came ra is starting. The s tatus p age screen indicates the settings of the camera. Status page screen The top line of the status page indic ates that the camera is ready to begin, (“Close to Start”) and instructs you to close the camera to start operation. A small door switch is located just below the “Interval” switch that automatically senses the door closing and begins the time - l aps e v ideo recording. The camera will stop reco

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 15 www.day 6outdoors.com If the camera is not ready to record, the status line will give one of the following messa ges: Message Condition Start on MM/DD/YYYY Camera is waiting on a user specified “start delay” to expire, and will begin recording on the date shown. Skip until HH:MM AM/PM Camera is in a Mid - day Skip period and indicates t he time of day it will restart recording. Start at Dawn Camera is in “Light Based” mode and has detected that it is too dark to operate . Start at HH:MM AM/PM Camera is in “Time Based” mode and is not currently schedule to run. Disk Full – Cannot S tart Shown

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 16 www.day 6outdoors.com Screen – Based Setting Pages The screen - b ased setting pages are where you can set the t ime and d ate, special features, and custom setting values. P ress PAGE button to cycle to the next page . Press SELECT button to cycle to the next field on a page . Press UP or DOWN button to change v alues in a field.

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 26 www.day 6outdoors.com If you wish to use a solar panel accessory, be sure it is a 12v model . I t is a good idea to select one that has an integrat ed battery or a battery charging circuit connected to an external battery which is connected to the PlotWatcher Pro. If your solar panel is not used in conjunction with an integrated or external battery, it can still prolong the life of your camera by p roviding the operating power during sunlight hours . T he internal batteries will be automatically sele

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 12 www.day 6outdoors.com Mounting the PlotWatcher Pro A tree strap is included for mounting your Plot W atcher Pro to a tree. The strap should be snug, but not too tight. The larger the tree you choose, the less wind sway you will have in your time - lapse video. It is sometimes helpful to use a small stick between the top of the camera and the tree to adjust the angle of the camera. Many game camera mounting accessories that work with the PlotWatcher Pro are available, such as tripods, stakes, and adjustable tree - mount devices. If you wish to use a mounting accessory, select one that uses ¼ - 20 thread

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 11 www.day 6outdoors.com limit the sensitivity. The settings for the motion searc h can be found under the SETTINGS button. On the FILE button, you can choose to export a single video frame as a JPEG image, or a sequence of 50, 100, or 200 video frames as a short TLV file (best resolution) or a compressed WMV file (best for You Tube ® uploads). For additional tips , to check for the most recent updates , and to get the latest information on the GameFinder player, visit www.day6outdoors.com .

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 2 www.day 6outdoors.com Introduction Thank you for purchasing the Day6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System. This camera continues the tradition of technological breakthrough started by the original PlotWatcher Time - Lapse HD video camera. Mounted at your potential hunting locations, it records HD video of all the activity that happens in the days before you hunt, so you will know precisely when and where to hunt. Images are captured and stored as video frames, typically every 5 or 10 seconds, from dawn until d usk, creating a time -

• Page | 17 www.day 6outdoors.com Start / Stop Options Light Based In “Light based ” start /stop mode, the camera will come on as soon as there is enough light for an image to be captured , and will cut off when there is no longer enough light to do so . During darkness , the camera is in “ night mode” and takes a picture every 5 minutes to determine if it is bright

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 13 www.day 6outdoors.com Preview Image for Aiming To inspect the aim of the camera, slide the POWER switch from ON to PREVIEW. You will see the following screen: Close the door and hold it shut for 5 seconds while an image is taken. Then open the door to preview your image on the screen. Adjust the aim if necessary, and close the door again for 5 seconds to take another image. Repeat until you are satisfied with the aim. Then slide the POWER switch back to ON before proceeding to ca

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 25 www.day 6outdoors.com to see if we have found particularly good or bad performance with any cer tain brand of card. NOTE: Your SDHC must be formatted with FAT32, and all cards of 32Gb or less usually come with this format. Windows 7 will not format using FAT32 , so do not reformat your SDHC cards with Windows 7. If you use Windows 7, and h ave a need to reformat your card, you will need a third - party utility software. See the FAQ at www.day6outdoors.com for more information, including the possibility of using 64Gb and 128G

• Page | 4 www.day 6outdoors.com Contents Introduction ................................ ................................ .............................. 2 Package Contents ................................ ................................ ...................... 5 What You Will Need ................................ ................................ .................. 5 C amera Qui

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 9 www.day 6outdoors.com Appl e Computer Installation 1. Insert the PlotWatcher TLV CD into your Apple computer . 2. Double click on the GameFinderDisk file package to mount the disk image onto the desktop . 3. Drag the GameFinder program into the Applications folder . 4. Double - Click on the GameFinder program in th e Applications folder to verify that it has been installed. Using the GameFinder Software

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 23 www.day 6outdoors.com Batteries We recommend that you begin with 8 AA alkaline batteries, unless the daily average temperatures are below freezing, or the night time lows are below 20 ⁰ F / - 6 ⁰ C. In that case, you should use 8 lithium AA batteries, which work particularly well in cold weather. You may wish to transition to rechargeable Low Self - Discharge NiMh batteries after you have benchmarked the operating life in your preferred mode, on regular alkaline batteries. The PlotW atcher Pro utilizes two battery banks: an upper bank of 4 batteries, and a lower bank of 4 batteries. You can

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 19 www.day 6outdoors.com Int erval Options 5 Sec The interval between video frames will be 5 seconds. This is a good setting for small areas where the game may pass through the field of view more quickly than in larger areas. This will consume more memory storage space and batte ry power than the 10 second setting, with a 12 hour video file using .8 to 1.2 Gb, depending on scene detail. See Specifications for more detail. 10 Sec The interval between video frames will be 10 seconds. This is a good setting for larger areas where the game will not pass through the

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 24 www.day 6outdoors.com After you have used the camera a few times with alkaline or lithium batteries, you will have a good benchmark on battery life and might want to consider rechargeable NiMh batteries as an alternative. Their tolerance for low temperature is similar to alkaline batteries (av erage temp erature above freezing, lows above 20 ⁰ F / - 6 ⁰ C) but they can save you money over time. Look for the newer “Low Self - Discharge” NiMh batteries, sometimes referred to as “pre - charged,” because the ordinary NiMh batteries lose their charge over time, even when not being used. Y ou can

• Day6 OutdoorsDay6 PlotWatcher Pro Game Surveillance System, Page | 20 www.day 6outdoors.com Start Delay If you are departing from a hunting site for an extended period of time, you may want to schedule your PlotWatcher Pro to begin capturing video only 1 or 2 weeks before you return in order to conserve me mory storage space and batteries. This can be easily done by specifying the # of days of Start Delay, up to 45 days into the future. The calculated start date will then be shown on the screen based settings page, as well as on the main status page.

• Page | 3 www.day 6outdoors.com The PlotWatcher Pro gives you more flexibility, with time intervals as short as 1 second or as long as 60 minutes. You also have the option of us ing interchangeable Day6 accessory lenses for greater zoom o r wide angle capabilities. These are available at the www.day6outdoors.com website . Thank you for puttin

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