<div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM Jay via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Jason has talked about solar assistant.  Have you checked that out?</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 8, 2025, at 3:38 PM, Kirk Herander via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">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? </div><div dir="auto">My cost on the guardian is now close to $500. It was a little over $300 years ago at this time. Tariffs possibly. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All the customer really needs is battery SOC</div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="m_9049262627996484242_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b style="font-family:Arial"><img width="96" height="72" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zIGox3hmaGW8StlnANQvRdXBrTEgpee6ZmV_8h-pfWcEl7lwlqfhSqd2PgPh89cgzwpzfUzuuIGxKE" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a name="m_9049262627996484242_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b style="font-family:Arial">Kirk Herander / </b></a><b style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="mailto:kirkh@vermont.solar" title="Send an email to kirkh@vermont.solar; Send an email to kirkh@vermont.solar" style="font-family:Arial;color:blue" target="_blank">kirkh@vermont.solar</a></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b style="font-family:Arial">Owner|Principal, VT Solar, LLC</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b style="font-family:Arial"><i style="font-family:Arial">Celebrating our 34<sup style="font-family:Arial">st</sup> Anniversary 1991-2025!!</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">dba Vermont Solar Engineering</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">802.559.1225</span></p></div></div></div></div>
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