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I can’t afford to run solution batteries drained within 4 days. Base statIon and 3 cameras non more than 5m away from baseball show good Wi-fi signal. What’s going wrong can’t afford. £2500 per year in batteries
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1. I do not use cloud activity zones.
2. Seven to 10 brief recordings of 30 seconds each are made at most each day.
3. No poor camera base connection. In fact, I just put the camera 10 feet, line of sight, from the base, and the iPhone right next to the camera. I hit the arrow (the "connecting" dialogue appeared and whirled around without connecting. Signal was three bars. Battery was 83% at the time. Do you have any other ideas?

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@schmulyank wrote:
1. I do not use cloud activity zones.
2. Seven to 10 brief recordings of 30 seconds each are made at most each day.
3. No poor camera base connection. In fact, I just put the camera 10 feet, line of sight, from the base, and the iPhone right next to the camera. I hit the arrow (the "connecting" dialogue appeared and whirled around without connecting. Signal was three bars. Battery was 83% at the time. Do you have any other ideas?
Fast Power Drain is either due to the camera doing a lot of streaming, or the camera needing to continuously resync with the base. Streaming doesn't seem to be a factor for you, though the iPhone "connecting" issue suggests that resync might still be a cause.
However, some folks have reported connection issues with the iOS app (which likely isn't creating power drain). So I would suggest looking at the live stream with a PC web browser (https://my.arlo.com) the next time the iphone stalls on connecting.
Another possibility on the power drain is that the battery needs to be replaced. About how old is it?


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@Retired_Member wrote:
1 of the 3 brand new Pro 3 Cameras battery is dead after working for 4 days at full charge. The other 2 are at 60% charge. Even after plugging in dead camera it will not charge. Any suggestions??
Try this: https://kb.arlo.com/000052305/My-Arlo-Pro-or-Arlo-Pro-2-battery-is-dead-what-do-I-do
If that fails you could try exchanging the entire system with the seller, or you could contact support.

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Okay, so I had the base station sitting in on a window ledge and I believe what was happening is that the base station was overheating when the mid-day sun hit it and was turning off for a period during the day. Obviously whilst the base station is off the cameras continually try to re-establish a connection back to the base station which uses up the battery more quickly. I've moved the base station slightly (only a few centimetres) so it doesn't catch the direct sun and the problem has gone away.

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@fallenidol wrote:
I had the base station sitting in on a window ledge and I believe what was happening is that the base station was overheating when the mid-day sun hit it
Thx for sharing that - it's not a scenario I'd run into before.

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