“With this solar panel do you still have to have batteries in your arlo essential camera for it to work? When you buy the 3 pack of arlo essential cameras does batteries come with it and if they do are they recharable batteries?”
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The Essential series of cameras are sealed with a non-removable rechargeable battery. The solar panel has an 8' cable and you plug it directly into the camera. In my experience, having purchased and installed this, you need DIRECT sunlight for the solar panel to provide enough energy to charge the battery (which is what they say on the Arlo website). If you only have a place to mount the solar panel with INDIRECT sunlight then it will not charge up in battery percentage. Maybe helps a little to not go down so fast ... will keep going down, not up. Sold to my neighbor and works great in direct sunlight. Going to get an Essential XL (that has bigger battery) to put in that spot to avoid having to take down and charge so often.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You still need the battery but the battery is internal so you cannot remove it. Solar panel plugs into the bottom of the camera which is the same as the charging port. The Essential model has them internally and charges by plugging the camera in. I can tell you that the solar panel is definitely the way to go. Just make sure the panel gets as much Sun as possible just like with any panel. Don’t have to freeze outside when it’s time to charge them.
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