10 W Solar Panels

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Reba Jowers
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I have a GL-VLTeb-205562. I ordered a 10W mono solar module. Model number SC- SP-10. I have AA High capacity rechargeable batteries in the camera. Turned it on and it work just fine for a day was running on solar then it stopped taking pictures and sending pictures. I Ordered the solar panel from Spartan for the specific camera so I was assuming that it was the right one. Also going through the Camera menu I see an option to arm the camera. So I pushed arm and camera started blinking green light but not taking pictures. So I guess I have two issues going on. And I assume the solar panel keeps the batteries charged? I fully charged the batteries before I put them in the camera. And they're showing that they are half charged.

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  • John Lockburner

    The solar panel will not charge the aa batteries in the camera, it only charges the built in lithium battery. Looking at the status report, what is the voltage of your internal battery. Does it give you the external voltage too?

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  • Reba Jowers

    Internal is 3.87v
    External is 20.75v
    We moved the camera and now it’s taking pictures. Maybe was not getting a good data signal. Says firmware’s up to date and is showing the camera is on solar (sun icon)

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  • Reba Jowers
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    We didn’t know it had an internal battery. We thought we had read everything about the camera but I guess we haven’t. Does that mean we can just use regular AA batteries in it? Or should we be using the lithium ion batteries? Sorry for so many questions just trying to understand

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  • John Lockburner

    OK, that all sounds good. The internal voltage will be that built in battery and the external will be the solar panel or your aa's. Make sure you have the battery type set correct in the camera settings on the app.

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  • Reba Jowers

    OK camera settings are correct. One more question on a day if there’s no solar does the camera automatically swap over to the batteries. We have AA rechargeable batteries in it does that make a difference should we change them out to regular AA? Thank you so much for your time and trouble we really appreciate it

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  • John Lockburner

    On a cloudy day or at night the camera will use those aa's to charge up the lithium internal. How many pics a day do you get? You might be able to just use the panel with no batteries in the camera. I have two cameras that have been running for over two years with the panel only, no batteries in the camera.

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  • Reba Jowers

    It depends on where it’s at in winter it’s in the woods. Summer it’s here at home on our driveway. We will keep the batteries in it I think. May take them out this summer just to do an experiment to see if it will work without. Looks like we don’t need the rechargeables in it just regular AAs. We’ve learned so much today. And it’s not like I didn’t try to get the information I just could not find anything specific enough to answer our questions. But you have. Thank you again.

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    I would be careful about using alkaline AA in a camera with solar unless you know for sure you’ll take them out within a couple of months. If your solar is working well, you may not need to touch the camera for many months, which increases the chances that alkalines will leak. It doesn’t hurt to use them for the initial charge to get that internal up, but if solar is keeping that internal charged, you won’t need to do anything to the camera for a long time.

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