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Thank you all. This is good info.
Power consumption is <0.3mA in idle mode, and since it only took one photo, it should have been in idle mode pretty much the whole time it was on. It's supposed to take 40,000 pictures on one set of batteries. It is 12 volt.
I'm going to try a different brand of card and see if that's the problem. A message board that references the camera has several comments about the wrong card being the source of short battery life. SM's comment "Implementation of error checking can prevent the device form hibernating / entering a lower power mode," sounds like a possibility.
I'll probably switch to rechargeable batteries after I get it going and know how long to expect the batteries to last. I made the mistake of running my Eneloops all the way down once. My "good" charger wouldn't recognize them when I tried to charge them. I had to get a cheepo charger that put some juice back in them before the good charger would recognize them.
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