I bought a couple of these for my Ring Spotlight Battery Cam, one to fill up the vacant space in the cam, as it is only supplied with one, and the second one to keep charged in the house, ready to replace as necessary.
I installed my cam on 4 December 2018 and it is now 4 February 2019 and there is still 19% left in the original battery, the second one is still at 100%.
You get a little lead that you plug into the battery and other end into a USB A socket to charge the battery up.
There is a lot of rubbish talked about Lithium-Ion batteries in general but they are really suited to cold conditions, I have used then for many years in weather stations, shed lights, and greenhouse instruments, and they keep going fine in even the coldest temperatures unlike other types (Alkaline for instance) which fail all the time.
I am more than happy with these batteries, and of course they should last a LONG time too, they keep their charge well when not used and you don't need to charge them all the time as they will last at least 2 months if my example of the cam is the norm.
They are not expensive either, think of the cost if the camera was powered by say Duracell batteries, these will last a LOT longer too as the can be recharged many, many times !
IMPORTANT UPDATE - 11 February 2019
The only downside is that they seem to be made by a different manufacturer than the ones originally in the Ring cam, the locking tab is slightly different (lighter stamped Ring logo on it for starters) and when I put it in my cam all seemed well as the red light came on, so I shut the case door and came down the ladder.
When I opened the app on my phone the battery was not shown as not in, so I went back outside, opened the case door of the cam and be battery fell out, landing 12 feet onto concrete... oops fortunately only very slight damage to the plastic casing though !
I picked it up and inserted it back in again, there was a 'click' and the red light came on, but it was very easy to pull the battery out... I tried the orignal battery in and this time the 'click' was a LOT louder and the battery stayed in fine.
Then on the 'faulty' battery I decided to very carefully bend the metal locking tab upwards, away from the battery body then tried it in the cam again until it clicked in with a LOUD click, then it locked in fine..
I then tried the second spare battery I had bought, and the problem was exactly the same... once again bending the metal tab upwards solved the problem after a couple of tries.
This IS NOT the sort of thing you really want to find out while stood on a ladder in the rain, they should work straight away, good job I am from an engineering/problem solving backgound otherwise I would have sent then straight back for a refund, so PLEASE TAKE NOTE, make sure the battery clicks in with a LOUD click, otherwise, like me you will have to adjust them !!!
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I was worried about placing this order as people say it's not original etc but I toke my changes and time to buy it. Was getting fed up having to charge the battery overnight without any recordings throughout the night. At least I have a spare I can pop in when the battery is drained.I was surprised with the quick dispatch. I placed the order at around 10.00/11.00am (UK time) and I requested next day delivery (prime) but to my surprise it came later in the late afternoon ON THE SAME DAY! was surprised and shocked!Then came the moment of truth fingers and toes crossed, hoping for it to be original, and to my surprise it actually was!! (See pictures) the back of the battery is slightly different. But you have to consider new standards, new ways to make it etc.Put it on charge and you get both lights, and it toke the same amount of time as my old one, then when charged green light stays and the orange light goes.Made sure my screw fits and it does, and I then placed it inside the doorbell and works great and so far no problems at all!Overall happy customer, happy product and thankful for Amazon!
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