Arlo Certified Accessory | Solar Panel Charger, Weatherproof, 8ft Magnetic Power Cable, Designed for Arlo Ultra, Ultra 2 (+XL), Pro 3, Pro 4 (+XL), Pro 5, Go 2 & Floodlight Cameras, Black

Connected up to my Arlo essential spot light, wireless camera. As battery was lasting 5 months when motion detection and everything turned off. But with normal viewing use it was only lasting 2 to 3 months. I just got fed up charging it. The price of this solar panel was much cheaper than others I had seen. I cable tied it up just like I did the camera. (Which was meant to be temporary but is doing the job of staying put very well lol). When I connected it up, the camera was on 30%. Viewing on and off through the day on my phone, and overcast weather the charge went down to 27. The thunder bolt was showing up ten minutes after first plugging it in. More sun shine in the days that followed and keeping the motion sensor off for now, and only viewing outside when needed. The battery charge is going up 7% a day, on sunny days. Testing the night vision and with the spot light on and odd viewing for 5 to 10 minutes through the day direct from my phone, only reduced the battery by 3%. Once it’s fully charged I will turn the motion sensor back on when needed. So far I’m really happy with this solar panel. But I don’t need to rely on it for constant security reasons. It’s mainly used to check on the kids when they r outside, when I’m not in the room to look out the window. I’m hoping even if or when the camera goes dead in the winter; it will turn back on come summer, without me having to mess about charging it again. Because every time I was having to remove it for charging, I was frightened of dropping the camera. Especially if I suddenly saw a spider.Update: battery icon on camera setting wasn’t showing the thunder bolt all day and still showing 72% since the day before. But the next day the charge showed 84% and no thunderbolt still but the black bar in the battery icon is fully filled. So even though I was getting worried some days it wasn’t charging if the thunder bolt icon wasn’t showing, it is charging! So I’m still happy and the camera charge only goes down one percent, when I’ve viewed the outside from my phone a few times for around a total of 10 minutes a day. The extra charging percentage just takes a full day or even the next day to update on my settings it seems.Update 3 years later: Blimey it’s still working. Every miserable and rainy winter with no sun, obviously it does go off for a few months. But then it charges it’s self back up, to use the rest of the year. My arlo battery icon settings are still all over the place. So I just ignore what percentage it’s on now. As the camera is still switching on and recording everything it hears or see’s. Plus this summer the kids have been outside every day. Then all the cats set it off constantly and foxes by night. Also the covering on the kids pool flapping about, sets it off to record a lot. So between 1 and 3 am I have found it has run out sometimes. But it’s back on shortly after the sun rises. I’ve also got it set to best quality video which drains the battery quicker. So this solar panel is still working great, and saves me the hassle of removing the camera to bring it in to charge. I’ll definitely buy another one, when needed.

I have quite a few Arlo cameras around the house, and the only gripe I have with them is that they need recharging, not a huge amount but enough to annoy.Anyway I saw the floodlight cameras and thought they looked really great, and I wanted some lights up anyway and thought these would suit, which they do actually, even just on battery they are really bright so I am happy with the purchase, but I knew the battery recharging would be a pain.So I bought 2 of the solar panels to go with them, and I got to say that I am very impressed as the one camera has always remained at 100%, and the other goes up and down depending on how sunny it is.It is vital you position so that the angle is getting as much light directly on it but you can swivel the solar panel all around and it has a fairly long wire as well so it hasn’t got to be right next to the floodlight.Admittedly when I installed the weather has not been too bad, so I can imagine in the winter the drain will probably exceed to solar charging and will need to be topped up, so I bought a magnetic cable for when I will probably need it during those months and you can just remove the magnetic charge cable that comes from the solar panel and stick the outdoor charge cable on until it’s charged.I got the extra cable because the floodlight for charging has a usb inside the camera case and you would need to remove the camera to access this which would be a nuisance and you have to press a button and take the whole thing off the bracket and the camera would not be doing it’s job of security while in the house charging, plus getting ladders etc.I love viewing the cameras and seeing the little lightning through a green battery icon and thinking that it is charging for free and saving me a job.So I do recommend these as very good, although they are a bit expensive but once up they make so much sense, and I may get some for my normal cameras as those ones are a bit cheaper.Hopefully during winter months I won’t have to edit my review, but they seem to charge well in only normal days where the sun actually isn’t fully out and clouds obscure the sun.

I have had one of these in White for a long time and it has given me good service even during the winter months I’ve managed to get through without taking down the camera and physically recharging the battery.I now have another floodlight this time in black that I cannot get an electrical feed to so I am using g a black panel to support it.Despite not being in direct sunlight all day it is getting sufficient sun to charge it albeit slowly.

Whilst I would have preferred a slightly shorter version, I was able to tidy the excess cable.I went for the outdoor version over the indoor as I preferred to have a dedicated plug over a USB style plug.It does exactly what I need it to and now I don't have to worry about charging the battery again.

I bought tow of these items to charge my ARLO cameras and neither of them work - I then tried to return the goods but was advised they dont accept returns. Simply put, DO NOT BUY THESE UNITS> Disgrace.I dindt even want to put 1 star, they are so bad!