Trail cameras are a great hunting tool, but the batteries just don’t seem to last very long.  Add-in cold weather and a flash going off all the time and the batteries die quickly.  Why not build this handy little circuit in 5 minutes with about $2.00 worth of parts and use a large capacity 12 volt battery.  Put it into an insulated camo box set at the base of a tree and run two wires up and into the camera.

You can throw this together in a few minutes, and see how it works.  Feel free to fancy it up a bit this is just a quick prototype.

Here is circuit and the prototype.

I purchased the parts from Jameco.  Here is a picture of the parts from the order, just two capacitors and a voltage regulator.

(note: I wrote 0.01uf on the bag, it is actually 0.1uf)

12 Volts Input voltage

12 volts to 6 volts Output voltage

Close up of the unit Front

Close up of the unit Back