Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Northwest Arkansas
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Anybody had tracking collar that the battery goes dead in a year for multiple years? Unfortunately it is not because I am using it that much? I hunt from once a week to once a month at most. I replaced the battery last november and it died a month ago. I am not sure if the magnet is getting weak or if it is soimething else? Anybody have any suggestions?

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try tracking it with the magnet in.

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I have an F&L MN 10 and a Johnson and a wildlife collar. I think it is the Johnson that is going bad. I had the battery replaced last year. This collar you take the magnet out to turn it on and put the magnet in to shut it off. I use a piece of an old bicycle inner tube to help hold the magnets in place and to protect the antenna. I know it sounds a little redneck but that was the way it was when I bought it twelve or thirteen years ago, used, off of a friend. I like the way it works but wish I could afford one of the new garmins. Could there be a short in it somewhere causing the battery to run down or something draining the magnet causing it to turn on and run down the battery?

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i had anew coller and if i used ablack magnet it would not turn it off had to have a silver one

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Originally posted by wishiwashunting
I have an F&L MN 10 and a Johnson and a wildlife collar. I think it is the Johnson that is going bad. I had the battery replaced last year. This collar you take the magnet out to turn it on and put the magnet in to shut it off. I use a piece of an old bicycle inner tube to help hold the magnets in place and to protect the antenna. I know it sounds a little redneck but that was the way it was when I bought it twelve or thirteen years ago, used, off of a friend. I like the way it works but wish I could afford one of the new garmins. Could there be a short in it somewhere causing the battery to run down or something draining the magnet causing it to turn on and run down the battery?

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I usually check it before I put it up to make sure I got the magnet in good enough. However when I pulled it out it was weak one time and dead the next.

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go to the message board under vendors under coon hound classifieds. There is a guy by the name of mike rivers, he can re do it for you. I have seen mikes work and hands down the best for $ . He only does certain type collars. Give him a call.

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Thanks dooley

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ya mike rivers fixed me up really nice. I had 4 collars all used. 2 were dead when i got them and 2 almost dead. He put 4 batteries in them and that was last year. 2 of them i think its the reed went out which causes the battery to die. The magnet is suppose to shut the reed off which cuts off the circuit the way i understood it and if the reed goes out then the battery continously runs. He backs his work up really good and super friendly guy, thats who i 1st started going to and dont know where i would go if he gets out of it

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