Solar Outdoor Security Cameras: Which Configuration to Order Wholesale

Straight answer: which configuration to buy

A solar outdoor security camera is a fully off-grid unit: a solar panel charges the built-in lithium battery, a 4G LTE SIM replaces WiFi, and a microSD card replaces the NVR. No power run, no network cabling. For importers and distributors buying by the carton, the configuration worth stocking today is 2K resolution, IP66 weatherproofing, microSD up to 128GB, and one of two power packages — an 8000mAh battery with an 8W panel for positions in direct sun, or a 20000mAh battery with a 15W panel for shaded positions and long rainy seasons. The 49 AOV models sit inside Shenzhen Leksell's full 150-SKU catalogue, with wholesale prices quoted per order. That is the whole answer — the rest of this article explains why each of those numbers matters once you are placing the order.

Hardware decides your warranty rate, not the demo footage

Solar cameras almost never fail in the field because of the image sensor. They fail because the battery runs flat halfway through the rainy season, because water finds its way into the junction housing, or because the memory card is overwritten so relentlessly that it stops reading. The three specification groups below are what you check against a quotation before you sign off on an order.

Battery and panel: there are only two packages, and the site picks for you

The classic first-order mistake is buying the entire batch in the cheapest package and then mounting it wherever the customer points. The cameras run fine for the first week; come the rainy season they drop off one by one, and the customer files all of it under "poor quality goods". A sensible mix for an opening order is mostly 8000mAh units for standard positions, with the balance in 20000mAh units to cover the awkward spots that surface the moment installers are actually on site.

Lenses: one, two or three

Standard resolution across the catalogue is 1080p to 2K; 4K is accepted only on custom or OEM orders. Say that plainly to the end customer, because the market is full of "4K" labels attached to sensors that do not deliver it. The difference that actually shows up on screen is the lens count: a single-lens unit gives you one fixed field of view; a dual-lens pairs a wide angle with a telephoto so you get coverage and a readable plate or face at distance; a triple-lens covers a junction or a full yard corner that a single body would have to keep panning to follow.

Storage and weatherproofing

microSD support up to 128GB is the standard configuration; anything larger is a custom order and is not held in stock. When you advise a customer, work backwards from how many days of loop recording they are willing to accept rather than selling capacity — a camera recording continuously at low bitrate and a camera recording events give very different day counts on the same card.

Every outdoor SKU is rated IP66. No model in the catalogue is published at a higher ingress rating, and that is worth stating honestly in a tender document: IP66 handles driving rain and pressurised water jets, which covers effectively every pole, wall and roof installation, but these are not submersible devices. The Shenzhen Leksell factory has been running since 2012 and holds TÜV Rheinland, CE, FCC and RoHS certification — that file is exactly what customs and project buyers ask for, so request the soft copies when you order samples rather than the week your container lands.

AOV vs PIR: the difference that earns the most at the point of sale

AOV stands for Always-On Video — continuous 24/7 recording at low standby power draw, achieved by having the camera analyse the scene with AI instead of waiting for a passive infrared sensor to trip. It is a general industry term, not any one brand's trademark.

A PIR-triggered camera only starts recording when it detects a heat change inside the sensor's zone. Three situations therefore get missed — and those are precisely the three your customer will call about: a person moving slowly or staying low to the ground; an event that happens outside the sensor zone but still inside the frame; and the first few seconds lost while the camera spins up its recording. For livestock theft, missing material from a construction site, or a boundary dispute, those first few seconds are usually the entire body of evidence.

When you quote a project buyer, this is the technical argument that defends a price above grey-market PIR stock, and it is verifiable in an afternoon — leave a camera recording overnight and scrub back through the timeline.

The four AOV series and factory price bands

Three models are the usual sample picks for a first order: SG-C41G-10T66-V1 as the opening option, SG-D42G-10F66-V1 for the mainstream dual-lens tier, and SG-D42G-15F66-V1 for low-sun positions that need the 20000mAh battery. The full catalogue with per-variant specifications is on the products page.

Order economics: MOQ, margin, lead time

MOQ is 10 units for a trial order and 100 units for OEM/ODM. Dealer discount starts at 20% from around 10 units and reaches 30% from around 50 — the thresholds are counted in units, not order value, so a batch of entry-level SKUs reaches the same tier as a premium one.

Our Vietnam office is in Ho Chi Minh City, and domestic deliveries ship from there. If you are a distributor working to a tender schedule, the number to plan around is 25–40 days by sea for the main batch, plus a small air-freight shipment so you have demo units in hand before the container clears. Terms, price tiers and the distributor account process are on the wholesale page.

OEM and private label

The entire catalogue, including all 49 AOV models, is available for private label from an MOQ of 100 units: your logo on the body and the carton, packaging to your design, your app name, and configuration to your specification. The factory also takes hardware changes on custom orders — higher resolution, larger battery and panel, more storage. Those items move both price and lead time, and they are always confirmed by a human quotation, never read off a website price list.

Field deployment and what to check before you sign

Install time is 5–10 minutes per camera: fix the bracket, insert the SIM and memory card, aim the panel at the sun, scan the code in the app. No electrician, no drilling walls to pull cable. That is the single strongest sales argument on farms, construction sites and material yards — places where the cost of running power routinely exceeds the cost of the cameras — so put it in the quotation as a specific line-item saving rather than a marketing sentence.

Three questions to put to any factory before a first order: which certificates are issued for the exact model you are buying (not for a different model from the same plant), which battery and panel package ships with that specific SKU, and where in the contract the defective-unit policy during the warranty period is written down. If those three do not have answers in writing, a few dollars per unit of savings disappears on the first warranty batch.

For volume pricing, or a sample batch to test on site, message us on WhatsApp at +86 188 1869 9870, call +86 188 1869 9870, or email info@solaguard.net. The dealer programme and the conditions for each tier are on the dealer page.