Ring Solar Charger for Battery Doorbells - compatible with Video Doorbell 3, Video Doorbell 3 Plus, Video Doorbell 4, Battery Doorbell Plus, Battery Doorbell Pro

I read the negative reviews before buying and decided that there were enough counterpoints to decide that the people having problems were having issues with what they have done, not with the charger. Like all solar panels, this is a trickle charger. It will generally only trickle power in slowly. However, having direct sun access is crucial because... well, its a solar panel. The sun tops the houses across the street from me early in the morning and climbs up above the edge of my roof above the door about four hours later. With that limited amount of direct sun, my Battery Doorbell Pro's battery will add about 20% charge per day thanks to this panel. Some Ring doorbells use 'optimized charging' where the cell is supposed to only charge up to a max of 80%. This 80% limit can be difficult to trigger for reasons beyond the scope of this review, but I found that on the BD Pro, if the cell is already fully charged prior to the solar charger's installation, the solar panel will do absolutely nothing until the battery gets down to about 70%. Only then will the solar charger start charging. When it does, it charges up to only 80% (stopping at 81%, actually). From there, with the sun I get, the solar charger will maintain between 70 and 80% battery charge indefinitely. I have the DBPro set to take snapshots every three minutes and do everything else that eats extra battery power. The direct sun access I get lets me do that. If your direct sun is less, you will have to adjust your settings to eat less power, or get used to the solar panel just extending battery life rather than making it never-ending. The exception to the above is the initial charge of the battery. When I installed my solar charger, I only had about a 38% charge on the battery. The solar charger added 20% per day until I was up to 100%... and then it seemingly did nothing for days until the battery slowly dipped down to 70%. Then it magically started up again into the cycle I describe above. Here again if you have limited sun access, you might not see this kind of clear result and it may look like the charger isn't doing anything.

Our ring didn’t have the best battery life and it’s not the best system for removal and charging. The solar charger is great. Haven’t had to remove and charge since I installed its

UPDATE No. 2: It's winter weather now. We've had snow, rain, temps in the single digits at night, several cloudy days in a row and, the battery level went as low as 45%. Overall, I'm very pleased with this purchase and I can recommend it as a good investment. I should think though, just in case, a second standby battery would still be a good idea. 45% is good but, not a guarantee it wouldn't go kiwer if the weather changed to even worse. Cold weather does drag the system for sure. UPDATE: You can read my original review below, but I was wrong. It does charge. When the battery gets to around 85% charge the solar mount's battery, that has stored it's charge from the sun, will charge the doorbell to around 90%. So add a star to the rating. Been using it about a week. This hasn't been tested yet in the winter, so if there's a change I'll update again. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I should note; to me, battery discharge due to usage is kind of how it all works. I didn't go into the Ring battery doorbell world thinking that I will never have to replace/recharge the battery. How often that occurs is the challenge. If I followed all the suggestions from Ring to lengthen the Interval, the doorbell/camera combo would essentially be just a doorbell that occasionally provided video of something or someone close because every setting available, meaning all the selling points that attracted me to buy it, would be in their lowest setting or off, and that is the major complaint about Ring security products. I bought the solar mount in hopes of lengthening the change/charge interval. Not eliminate it. After reading the reviews, the average conclusion was just that. Add my conclusion to that category. In my area there is a lot of activity. Cars, walkers, animals from the woods. I've adjusted the zone to just one, right in front of the door and a bit to either side. All of the settings are maxed, but I do not use the Bird's Eye View. It's a great feature but for the area I'm concentrating on, it has no purpose. Without the solar panel I was dropping 6 to 8 percent per day of battery charge. With the solar, 2 sometimes 3. A great improvement and one I accept. I can recommend this product knowing it improves battery life, but does not eliminate the need to change it out (I have 2 batteries). I also want to point out that this is now the warm/hot spring and summer months. I've read that cold weather causes the battery to drain quicker. Time will tell and I may be back to fill you in during the cold weather months. No promises.

------ORIGINAL REVIEW titled "Does not charge even with a fair amount of Sunlight" This charger does not charge my camera. It gets about 5-6 hours of direct sunlight every day. The uploaded photo was taken at 6pm and you can see that the shade is just approaching at that time, In that app, I see solar connected status but I never see the charging icon and the camera is losing about 1% of battery per day. The only positive is that the installation was fairly straightforward though the instructions are not that good. At this point, I cannot recommend this charger. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REVISED REVIEW titled "Seems to charge enough to keep battery levels steady or add 1% per a week." With some great customer service from Ring, we went through some troubleshooting steps . Afterwards, Ring determined the next best thing to do was to replace the charger. The replacement charger did cause the charging icon to show. The charging icon does not show the majority of the time but at least now it does show some of the time and I have seen the battery % actually increase 1% from time to time. I don't think that it will actually charge the battery to 100% on its own, but I can say at least it is doing a great job of keeping the charge % steady with an occasional increase of 1%. If it will continue to keep the charge steady , then it meets my needs. Thanks Ring for the amazing Customer Support!

I bought this product in April for use in South West UK. I’ve been away for 8 months & it’s brilliant. You can view the charge left on the Ring app - it hasn’t ran out yet. Impressed it works this well in England. Without charging the battery should last 60 days - it’s been 7 months, it’s winter & the battery is at 80%+

Wir haben im Herbst eine Ring (2 Gen.) inkl. der Solarladestation installiert. Installation ging einfach - wer eine Ring aufhängen kann, kann auch das Lademodul ergänzen ;) An der von uns gewählten Stelle haben wir ab ca. 12 Uhr direkte Sonneneinstrahlung und das Lademodul bringt genug Leistung, um unsere Ring zu "halten" (das, was die Kamera in der Nacht und morgens verbraucht, wird Tagsüber wieder aufgeladen). Im Winter war die Ladeleistung natürlich etwas schlechter, jedoch haben wir an einem guten Sommertag mehr Ladung wie Entladung, so das zum Winter hin die Kamera wieder voll geladen sein müsste - wir haben im Herbst mit 85% "angefangen" und sind momentan Abends bei 80% - und der Sommer kommt erst noch ;) Klare Kaufempfehlung.

Perfecto como siempre sólo lo que veo mal es lo de tener que pagar para que me llegue los avisos del timbre

Passando in genere 10 ore al giorno a lavoro cercavo un citofono che mi permettesse di essere presente virtualmente in casa. Preso ad un ottimo prezzo con il prime day e associato al suo pannello solare per la ricarica posso dire che fa egregiamente il suo lavoro. Ero spaventato da alcune recensioni che parlavano di ritarti e di richieste perse ecc. Io l'ho installato al posto del vecchio citofono a circa 10 metri dalla porta ( ho un vialetto ) e nonstante il segnale wifi non sia eccenzionale a quella distanza, non ho avuto bisogno di nessun estensore di segnale o access point. ( ho una 2,5 giga come connessione ) L'installazione è facile e il suo pannello solare mi ha permesso di isolarlo dalla rete elettrica garantendo sempre una ricarica giornaliera di circa il 10% a fronte di una scarica del 2% e questo nonostante non sia esposto a sud e le ore di sole siano circa 4/5. Non ho notato ritardi ne tra l'effettivo utilizzo del campanello, sia nella relativa comunicazione con l'app. Ottimo anche l'audio biderzionale.

Fonctionne très bien