I've run the trap camera with a temp and humidity sensor. The camera operated for about 6 hours and then (I assume) overheated and turned off. External ambient temp would have be 12-18degC. Around the time the camera stopped recording (10-11pm), the temp inside the trap camera hit a maximum of about 27degC. I assume that for the temp inside the box to have gone up by 10degC, the radiant temp of the camera must have gone up to 40degC or thereabouts (which seems to be the temp at which the Sony A7S2 turns off).
See the files in the previous post.
Note that I bought and included a 40g Silica Gel crystals box into the trap camera ... and there was no fogging this time. The functioning of this box might be visible in the graph I uploaded. Humidity went down from 60% to less than 20% (effective product!)
Where to from here? I'm a bit stuck.
Do I build a cooling fan into my trap camera? Seems overkill.
Do I give up on 100FPS recording?
Do I put the battery pack on the outside of the trap camera?
Do I use an expensive external recorder? (would be fine if I could still keep it in the same box).
Do I buy another camera that doesn't overheat?
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