Ring Solar Charger (2nd Generation) for Battery Doorbells - Video Doorbell 3, Video Doorbell 3 Plus, Video Doorbell 4, Battery Video Doorbell Plus, Battery Video Doorbell Pro

The design and quality of the build leave nothing to be desired. It's really easy to fit, especially if you already have the Doorbell fitted as it uses the original holes in the wall. You really can't expect too much from this though. The solar panels surrounding the Doorbell are very small. It really requires placing in the optimum sunny position to be really appreciated. Admittedly, mine is east facing, under a small shelter and sees the sun for only a few hours in the morning. I really don't expect much from it, but just hoping it will extend battery charging frequency. It's been 4 days and the battery is hanging around 90% which is acceptable considering the use it has, my settings for video capture and it's position.Definitely 10/10 for product quality, but don't expect it to fully charge a battery in a few hours (something even the battery charger won't do).

I used to get annoyed having to recharge the battery every 3 or 4 weeks. Since installing the solar charger 4 weeks ago when the battery was at 92, the battery level has not gone below 87% and is currently 94%.Its currently summer and I have a SW facing door which will help but I don't imagine it will need charging often even over winter.The charger itself is easy to fit, you can reuse the current screw holes if the doorbell has already been installed.I bought this a year ago but only fitted it a month ago and I'm annoyed at myself for not fitting it sooner!

This particular solar charger is not working. I have set it up facing day/sun light 12 hours possible charging. I checked the ring doorbell, it had gone to 4% charge so I removed it and fully charged the doorbell before reinstalling it back on the solar. The charge is sill depleting. I have checked connections, cleaned all contacts and still no joy.

This ‘solar charger’ is a small 0.57W charging mount which looks great.I roughly calculated that the 33Wh ring battery, with a 3 month battery life would only require around 0.3Wh of charge per day. Or in other terms, 45minutes of ‘direct’ sunlight a day (without clouds) to maintain the battery 🔋 charge.On a very sunny day, this solar charger mount can charge the battery by around 2-4% (in the day obviously). It will hold (maintain) the charge % on lightly cloudy days and will ‘reduce the battery drain speed’ (slightly discharge) on rainy days.The battery will drain by 1-2% overnight, so a you are looking at between 3% charge (over 24hours) to 2% discharge per day dependent on conditions.This means a battery with full charge will still require charging (depending on location) once or twice a year over winter.In summer this solar charger can charge / sustain the battery, but you will likely need to charge the battery in December and February (even in direct sunlight).This should help you temper your expectations of this charge mount. Note the battery will not start charging until <85% charge to reduce chemical ageing. Much easier than changing a battery every 5/6 weeks.

Without this solar charger, a battery would last on average for about 25 days, with the power dropping from 100% to 30%. However, with this solar charger connected, it has been in excess of 30 days so far where the battery has not dropped below 80% which is very good!The charger is West facing, so it gets a good amount of general daylight and sun and on a nice day. Will see how this fairs during the Winter months. I expect the charging to lessen. Apart from that, it's great piece of kit to have and I would recommend getting one, especially if your video doorbell is in place where there's a good spell of sunlight.

So pleased I bought this. My door is South West facing and the battery is currently at 100% after being in use for over 10 days. The solar panel took less than 5 minutes to setup as the screw holes for wall mounting exactly match the ones on the doorbell. Once the doorbell is attached everything looks like one unit which is great. Hopefully I won’t have to replace the battery ever again 😁

Works okay at preventing faster battery drain, but it doesn’t charge the battery and I will still need to charge the battery every approx 4 weeks by the look of it.

Good product. Saves messing about unscrewing doorbell to charge👍🏻