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Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 9:20 AM
How to determine doorbell battery level?
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captain11
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s13n
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Maybe the USB port is not for charging and it only charges via AC? Or perhaps it only has a very small battery that is not designed to power it long term?
I have a Ring 2 doorbell and that has a battery that powers it for months on a charge. If they didn't want $2 a month to store the images I'd be using that.
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worthing
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I'm betting the battery in the doorbell is sized to run for a few hours or maybe half a day max so the unit operates during power outages. There's no way it lasted since June w/o getting external power. No way at all. There's a photo of what I presume is the battery at https://apps.fcc.gov/eas/GetApplicationAttachment.html?calledFromFrame=Y&id=4014344 but I can't make out the text to determine its capacity.
This is below the minimum system requirements for the doorbell so yes, it's possible that it was able to limp along for a while. Regardless of whether the problem is the doorbell itself or not you should see about upgrading your transformer to power the unit appropriately.
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