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TRAIL SENTRY™
Digital Trail Camera
with Night Vision
LIT #: 98-xxxx/02-07 Instruction Manual
Model 119303
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® ™ Congratulations on your purchase of the Bushnell Digital Trail Sentry Camera! This weatherproof, rugged trail camera is designed to record still images or movie clips of outdoor wildlife activity. This instruction manual will help you understand, setup, and use your Sentry to achieve the best possible results. Bushnell Digital Trail Sentry Features If you’ve been looking for a digital game scouting or surveillance camera that has all the essential features but without the unwante
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QUICK GUIDE: BUSHNELL TRAIL SENTRY 119303 1. Open the camera by releasing the latches on the right side of the camera. Install 4 “D” cell batteries (flat base of all batteries contacting springs), and insert an SD card (not included, use any capacity from 16MB to 1GB) in the slot to the right of the 5 buttons (upside down, brand name facing you). Press the card down until you hear it click into place. 2. Press and release the Power switch. The display will show four “dashes”, then chan
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QUICK GUIDE: BUSHNELL TRAIL SENTRY 119303 6. The “key” icon will blink next, press ENTER and enter any four digit password of your choice (to keep using the default “0000”, just press ENTER 4 times) by using the UP/DOWN buttons to change each digit and using ENTER to step to the next digit. When finished, press ENTER if you want to return to the date/time setup menu, or press and hold the MENU button at any time to exit all setup menus and return to normal operation. 7. In normal oper
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Digital Trail Sentry Specifications Image Sensor 3. Megapixel (MP) CMOS sensor Lens F/3.5, effective focal length 4mm. Sight range: 45 degrees Flash High power electronic Incandescent Flash or IR LEDs (array of 0). Range: 30 ft. PIR Sensor Low noise, high sensitivity passive infrared sensor. Range: 45 ft. Motion LED Indicator Yes Display Monochrome LCD. Auto-off: 3 min. -digit event and image display. File Format Standard JPEG format (.jpg) still photos. Video movie clips (.avi). DCF v
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Glossary PIR—Passive Infrared Sensor. Senses motion like typical security motion detector. Requires infrared energy (heat) in addition to motion to trip sensor to assure detection of live animals. Event—Any time that the PIR senses motion it counts it as an event. Events are recorded to the SD card in a text file. Events are recorded continuously during operation. Image—A digital picture recorded on the SD Card when motion is sensed. Images are taken at the desired delay between images.
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Front of Camera PIR Control Panel Inside Front StandardFlash LED Camera SD Card Slot LCD IR Lens Display Flash Button & Display PIR Detected (or Detail Setup, Low Battery) LED Menu & Power Lock Buttons Tab Parts Guide 119303 Trail Sentry manual-Engli7 7 2/13/07 12:19:06 AM
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Setup and Operation Guide 1. Open the Sentry by pulling out on the two latches on the right side. Install 4 “D” cell batteries (flat base of all batteries contacting springs), and insert an SD card (not included, use any capacity from 16MB to 1GB. Do not substitute MMC cards.) in the slot to the right of the 5 buttons as indicated on the slot cover (upside down, with the notched corner of the card on the left and metal contacts of the card facing the back of the slot). Press the card down un
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Setup Guide (cont.) press Enter again. The display will then change to let you set the year, with only the last two digits blinking (“20_ _”) (d). Again use the Up/Down buttons to change the year if necessary, press enter, and set the time (“TIME” will flash, press enter and use d Up/Down to set the hour and minute. The time display uses the 24 hr standard, so 2:00 PM is indicated as “1400”, etc). 4. After the date and time have been set, and Enter is pressed, “EVENT” will flash on the dis
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Setup Guide (cont.) 6. The “key” icon will flash next (g), press ENTER and enter any four digit g password of your choice (to keep using the default “0000”, just press ENTER 4 times) by using the UP/DOWN buttons to change each digit and using ENTER to step to the next digit (h). When finished, press ENTER if you want to return to the date/time setup menu, or press and hold the MENU button at any time to exit all setup menus and return to normal operation. h 7. In normal operating mode, the
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Setup Guide (cont.) Batteries typically last 30 days or more, depending on how often the Sentry is activated by events, how often the flash fires, ambient temperature, etc. The red LED lamp will stay on continually to indicate a low battery condition. 9. Pressing the Up/Down buttons during normal operation will switch the display between showing # of photos stored (i) and # of events recorded (j). To view your captured photos, make sure the power is off, and remove the SD card by pushing do
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ABOUT THE PIR SENSOR The sensor that triggers the trail camera is Passive Infra Red, or PIR. Infrared energy is essentially heat energy. The PIR detector operates by sensing a change in the infrared level in its detection zone. This zone is a cone in the center 10 degrees of the camera’s field of view. The camera establishes an average long-term infrared level. When this level increased suddenly the PIR detector signals the camera to record a picture and/or an event. Because of this effect
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OTHER BUSHNELL DIGITAL TRAIL CAMERA MODELS 119833—Digital Trail Scout 3.0MP Great images and scouting technology at a great value. This camera will sense deer and other game as far out as 90 feet with its passive infrared sensor. Low-battery indicator lights when battery life drops below 5%. Motion LED lights when activity is detected by the sensor in regular imaging mode and during setup mode for aiming. Weatherproof. Date/Time/Moon Phase stamp feature. Comes complete with aircraft a
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TWO-Year LIMITED WARRANTY FCC Note: ® This equipment has been tested and found to comply Your Bushnell product is warranted to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant two years after the date of purchase. In the event of a defect under this warranty, we will, to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed at our option, repair or replace the product, provided that you return the product postage to provide reasonable
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For further questions or additional information please contact: Bushnell Outdoor Products 9200 Cody, Overland Park, Kansas 66214 (800) 423-3537 • www.bushnell.com ©2007 Bushnell Outdoor Products 119303 Trail Sentry manual-Engli16 16 2/13/07 12:19:08 AM
