Ring Solar Panel for Spotlight Cam Battery
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This is a lifesaver! I love the ring products and wanted to place a camera that was no near any power. I noticed that the batteries would last about 2 weeks from a full charge. After having to pull out the batteries and wait for them to charge I started searching for a solar option. I am could not be happier with this product. Even with multiple days of cloud cover or snow, my battery doesn't drop below 98%. My only suggestion would be a shorter cable option as the one that is hard-wired into the back of the panel is crazy long. This would be great if your camera is on the other side of the house that doesn't get any sun but for those that don't need all of the extra, it doesn't look very clean with a massive roll of cable stuffed behind your camera."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I picked up this solar panel with a little trepidation. Many reviews are negative, claiming it doesn’t work well. I have found that to be completely false. I purposely installed two batteries in the Ring spotlight cam - one was 100% charged, the other was about 40% charged. After a quick install of the solar panel I watched the battery indicator creep up 5-10% each day. Both batteries in the camera are now fully charged on a daily basis. The panel receives partial morning sun, but manages to maintain both batteries at over 97%. I live in a heavily wooded area and the camera catches squirrels, cats, foxes, turkeys, on a regular basis. It probably triggers 20-30 times in an average day, but the solar panel keeps the batteries full. I am thoroughly impressed with this product. I will be purchasing more. One thing to watch out for- the Ring Stick Up cams use a different power supply connector. Make sure you are buying the correct solar panel.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'When I bought my Ring Spotlight Cam Battery HD Security Camera with Built Two-Way Talk and Siren I realized immediately the ability to put 2 batteries in meant this device had it all! With all of it"s features one must have sufficient energy. I bought the solar panel when I bought it but didn\'t attach it for 10 days. I placed it on the roof facing the direction the enclosed information said would be optimal placement. The first couple days I was up and down the ladder changing the battery 2ce a week. After seeing how much my battery was draining in the first couple of days (a lot of dog motion pulling on the power source) I was really glad I bought the panel. I waited 10 days to attach the solar panel as I wanted maximum placement time to see how well the panel was going to do in the place I selected , desired some exposure to sun before attaching it to my Spotlight with only one battery chamber filled, and a way to see that the solar panel was working as advertised.. After I attached the solar panel, health checks great with 97-98% battery power readings! Haven\'t been up that ladder at all in a few weeks!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'the solar panel works great in keeping the spotlight camera fully charged all the time... no complaints.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': "I mounted this in full sun and have moved it several times but my battery levels continue to drop. I haven't found anywhere I can mount it for it to be effective. If someone could help me troubleshoot it would be great; otherwise I'm going to have to send it back."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': ' These Ring solar panels are hands down the only way to go!! Super easy to install and supply more than enough power for my ring stickup cameras. With just a couple hours of direct sunlight a day. Hurricane Zeta just came through last week where I live with winds reaching 120mph actually our 5th hurricane of the season but the only one since I installed the Ring solar panels! I was sure the were going to be gone the next morning! Most of our roof was gone as well as most every house in our subdivision! But to my surprise the panels held strong!! I could not believe it!! I have a few Ring stickup cams and I have a Solar panel for each one and none of them get more than a couple hours of direct sunlight a day. And they get a lot of use! These are the regular size panels not the larger panels. I have read a lot of negative reviews in regards to people having issues with their panels not supplying enough power to keep their Cams charged and here is what I have learned throughout trial and error because no one had any reviews about these things at the time of my purchase and may help some of you out.\n1. You don’t need one of the larger panels to power one camera as long as it gets a couple hours of direct sunlight a day. As my cams can get as many as 100 alerts and motion detections a day Each!\n2. When you connect your solar panels Ring will ask you would you like to switch power mode to Wired Mode and you must select NO and keep the battery selection because if you select Yes your cam will automatically unlock a lot of features that will keep your cameras power on almost constantly as apposed to just when it senses motion or an event resulting insufficient power for constant run time. Which is useless in my opinion because the only time I want my system to record is when they detract motion or an event anyway!\n3. Your battery is never gonna read 100% at all times that really depends on how much activity they get. My cam batteries may drop from 100% to 85% some days depending on the amount of activity they record but as I mentioned mine get 100 or more events and detections each in a single day! But they charge back pretty quick with just a couple hrs of direct sunlight a day I have no doubt if the panels had more direct sunlight they might rad 100% at all times.. but don’t get discouraged if they don’t. And I have all my setting and sensitivity’s set at the highest possible settings such as\nSnapshot every 5 min and record time is 3 min for each event with all with rich notifications on.\nWith that being said this is a performance and installation review NOT an economic review of the ring solar panel even though I think $49.99 is a great price all things considered! These solar panels over all are a little pricey but well worth the money! And they install with just 2 screws! Can’t go wrong in my opinion!\nHope I have helped some of you with this review if so give it a 👍'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I recently installed this solar panel for the Spotlight Cam Battery. Not only did it immediately start charging both of my batteries, the performance is now very close (in many ways) to my Spotlight Cam and Doorbell Pro. My Spotlight Cam Battery now ramps up to a good video quicker, doesn't skip, stutter, or have video glitches, and overall just looks better, including now having Night Colors, as my other Ring cameras do.\n\nThis camera points across my front yard to the sidewalk and street. Even with two batteries, I was having to remove one for charging more often than I had hoped, but that is because there are a lot of people walking on my side of the street (no intersections) - which is what I want to monitor - so the camera records many times each day. Now, my batteries stay at 100%, so even if there are days without much sun, I should always have plenty of electricity to power my camera.\n\nIt makes me think that the firmware is programmed to give it the performance of a wired camera, when it sees the solar panel. I believe Ring throttles the performance of the Battery version, to save battery life, and it used to lose even more performance (almost unbearable) when the battery got very low - just before it would switch over to the 2nd battery. Now - with the solar panel - I am completely happy with the Spotlight Battery Cam."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I have two Solar Battery Charges attached to two Rings. One of the Rings is attached to a tree on my front yard. The other is attached to an eve of my house in the backyard. The battery looses 1% of its charge daily on both of these Rings. The Solar Battery Charger do not increase the charge on the battery. This is disappointing because both of these devices are hard to reach and recharging the batteries is a hassle.\n\nRevised comment 1-9-19\nRepositioned the Solar chargers in direct sunlight and the batteries are charging.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "UPDATE 6/15/19!!! Panel has stopped charging my spotlight cam after only having it for 2 months. I've unplugged it from the camera and plugged it back and it's still not charging.\n\nThis works perfect. I installed it myself. Very quick and easy. I left home with my cam on 52% and when I got home from work, it was on 82%. No complaints so far."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I would give this five stars for "just working," but I was rather unhappy with the inflexibility of installation.\n\nSince I was installing in my east-facing back yard, I would have liked a way to install this with the panel facing south, tilted up parallel with my solar electric panels. But there is no way to do this, so it is installed in a way that leaves it mostly shadowed in the afternoon. The good news is that even like this, it charged from about 20% to 100% in a few days and it maintains a full charge on the (single) battery in my camera.\n\nThere is no indication in the app that it is charging, but of course I can check at different times and see that it must be. So this isn\'t really a problem.'}]