Looking to buy Shock Collar's.......Sport dog 400s two dog

[huntinfool]

On the new Tritronics what happens if you need new batteries?

The Transmitter on the Sport Basic is a standard 9V. Reciever Batteries are about $20, and you change them yourself. That's another positive I forgot to list, if batteries go dead in the Dogtra, its mail in for repair. Tritronics you can change them.

[tiffinis]

My biggest complaint about dogtra vs tritronics.

Turn the collars on. When on, little red blinking light says they are working.

Tritronics, when the battery is getting low, it starts to do a rapid flash that is unmistakable and lasts 20-30 minutes. During that time, you can still correct your dog.

Dogtra, when the battery is getting low does a double flash that can be hard to detect. During that time you only have a minute or two and then the collar is dead. I have turned them on had them be fine and 5 minutes later be unable to correct a dog. If I cant rely on them in my yard, how would I ever be able to rely on them in the hunting woods?

[merv]

You can also change the batteries on the Dogtra yourself, thats one reason i purchased it.

As far as the light goes on the Dogtra it blinks red when charged and turns to amber when it gets low. I have had my units blink amber for hours. You must have an old unit.

[Joeyman]

I appreciate all your guy's opinions. You guy's have given me alot of good information. I will make a decision based on the pros and con's. Right now I am leaning toward Tritronic's. I am going to search around for who ever has the best price.

Thank's

[53pigeon]

Tell ya what I done before I bought my new collars. Call a service center and ask what units they work on most often and get thier opinion. I called the Collar Clinic. They were very helpful. Also called Bill Boatman and Cabela's. You'll be suprised...

[huntinfool]

Tell ya what I done before I bought my new collars. Call a service center and ask what units they work on most often and get thier opinion. I called the Collar Clinic. They were very helpful. Also called Bill Boatman and Cabela's. You'll be suprised...

I'm not saying doing this wouldn't be helpful, but it could be very deceptive. I suspect there are far more Tritronics out there than any of the other brands, thus they would most definitely have more repair instances. Just for hypothetical purposes, absolutely no merit to these numbers other than as an example...

If there are 500,000 Tritronics sold and there are 5000 units that failed, this is a 1% failure rate. Conversely there were 150,000 of "Brand B" sold, and 3000 units that failed, that would be a 2% failure rate. Yet a repair center saw nearly twice as many Tritronics.

Point I'm trying to get across is... There could be a lot more repairs on any certain brand just because of sheer numbers, not because of reliability. Good Luck in your choice.

[tiffinis]

In regards to your comment about my dogtra system being old.

My Dogtra Sportdog 1802 is 2 years old.