RingSolar 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).

Easy to install and works perfect. Keeps battery at 100%. If it doesn't keep anybody at that level I would look at getting a new battery

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.

Super easy to fit, fitted yesterday, charging the battery even though today is a dull day.

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!

I bought a solar charger for my rear door Ring 4 (south facing), installed last week of February , and tested for 2 weeks. To be honest, it doesnt really benefit unless you get at least a few hours of direct sun a day. You will otherwise see the battery level going down daily even with very light use. The mini solar panel is not really up to the job in low light for UK. With hind site I would probably have bought the larger solar panel charger, as I could put this on a fence, and would probably work better in lower light.On 3 / 4 occasions over the last 2 weeks on test, it also does not show connected on the App, even below 80% battery level , and did not seem to charge at all. (note: It took a day or so, to show that its connected / charging when first connected, which is really not very clever, as you really need instant way to check its working - this is normal apparently ).A reboot through the app seems to be needed to resolve on the few occassions it seem to stop working.This may be a firmware issue so will give it a few months to see if it improves on connectivity .I assume if the solar pack battery drops to a low level, it forgets that its connected.As long as it charges in Spring / Summer, then I dont mind having to charge manually once a month in the darker months.So will give 3 star for now, and will update in a few months, if improves.*** Update *** - Ring support kindly contacted me via amazon and offered to send me a new larger solar panel to test. Great service ! Will update with results ,

Always wanted the Ring door bell camera but previous versions were very poor ratings. Glad I waited for this latest version as it works brilliantly and very easy to set up. Got the chime and the solar panel that also work great.