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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    I’m not sure what setup you are using for GoCams because the solar panels have to be plugged into a battery to charge the battery, they can’t be plugged directly a GoCam.

    Your GoCams are 6V, GoLives are 12V. You’ll need to post more details about the solar panels.

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  • Travess Jansky

    Sorry, that’s what we have. The solar panel charges the battery in the box then goes to the camera from there. So we would need a new battery or whole new set up for the 12v for the GoLive?

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  • John Lockburner
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    Did you buy the Spartan battery box set up for your GoCams? Is your panel a 12 volt panel?

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    If it’s the Spartan battery box, you can’t use that with GoLives and Ghosts. The Spartan box for GoCams outputs 6V and GoLives/Ghosts are 12V. If the solar panels are 12V panels, you’ll just need a new cable to connect the solar panels to Ghosts/GoLives.

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  • Travess Jansky

    This is what we have.
    12v 18ah battery
    Spartan Camera GoCam battery box
    10W solar panel
    10W solar panel bracket

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  • John Lockburner

    You aren't going to use it for your GoCam anymore? If not then you can either just get the plug for the solar panel to connect to the GoLive or you can get the battery box for the GoLive and use the battery and solar panel like your current set up. I'm going to assume your panel is 12 volts.

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  • Travess Jansky

    Our GoCams are 3G and att has just stopped service on them. Making them a strictly an SD card camera now will not use up batteries anymore like they used to so we want to use the solar panel set up for the GoLive cams now. The description says exactly what I typed above. 12V battery with 10W solar panel.

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  • John Lockburner

    you could put the panel in the sun and test the leads with a meter to see what the voltage is but I'm pretty sure that's going to be a 12 volt panel.

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    I agree with Johnny that your panels are probably 12V.

    Off topic, on your 3G cameras that won’t work as cell cams, go into the camera’s fourth menu tab and turn send mode OFF to keep the camera from trying to get onto the network and eating batteries. It will try as long as send mode is set to instant (or on) even if it’s not possible for it to use the network.

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