[RE-wrenches] Alternatives to Fortress guardian?

[Chris Sparadeo]

I had a customer place a ring camera in front of their eVault’s screen to
be able to monitor from out of state. I thought that was a clever approach.
I know that some versions auto dim, but values are still visible.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM Jay via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> Jason has talked about solar assistant.  Have you checked that out?
>
> On Oct 8, 2025, at 3:38 PM, Kirk Herander via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
> 
>
> I’d like to find a less expensive way than the Guardian to monitor a
> Fortress Evault battery. (No Envy inverter, open loop w/ Magnum.)Third
> party something?
> My cost on the guardian is now close to $500. It was a little over $300
> years ago at this time. Tariffs possibly.
>
> All the customer really needs is battery SOC
> So he can go to the site and manually start the generator if necessary. He
> lives a few miles away and doesn’t trust remote auto-start given the
> generator’s condition.
>
> I could just park a cheap security camera right in front of the E vault
> display since we’ll have Wi-Fi there, if the evault display can be set to
> illuminate constantly, as it is a touchscreen.
>
>
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