SG-D42G Explained: SolaGuard's Dual-Lens 2K Solar 4G AOV Series, Spec by Spec

What D42G is

D42G is the series code for SolaGuard's dual-lens 2K solar 4G AOV cameras — full model numbers SG-D42G-10F66-V* and SG-D42G-15F66-V*. If the code has turned up on a quotation, a packing list or a competitor's datasheet you are cross-checking, it identifies 34 catalogue SKUs in two power classes: 18 variants on 8000mAh battery and an 8W panel, and 16 variants on 20000mAh battery and a 15W panel. Every D42G unit is 2K (2.0MP × 2, dual lens), rated IP66, records to microSD up to 128GB, connects over 4G LTE with no WiFi and no mains power, and runs AOV rather than PIR-only triggering. Two named reference SKUs, if you need something exact to quote against: SG-D42G-10F66-V1 and SG-D42G-15F66-V1, with wholesale prices quoted per order.

That is the short answer. The rest of this page is what a distributor actually needs after it: how to read the rest of the model number, which of the two lines to stock, and where D42G sits against the other AOV series in the catalogue.

Reading the model number

The codes look opaque until you line up four of them, at which point they are almost self-documenting.

The practical value of this is that a buyer can sanity-check a quote before it becomes a purchase order. If a line item reads SG-D42G-15F66-V1 and the accompanying spec sheet claims a single lens, or an 8W panel, or anything other than IP66, the quote and the model number disagree and someone has copied the wrong row.

The two D42G lines, side by side

This is the decision that matters most, because the gap between the two lines is large relative to the catalogue as a whole — the 15F66 line sits at the top end of the entire SolaGuard range.

The imaging is identical. What you are paying the difference for is energy budget, and the honest way to frame that for a customer is as a siting constraint, not a picture-quality upgrade.

The 8000mAh / 8W line suits open positions with a clean southern (or in the southern hemisphere, northern) exposure and no all-day shade: field perimeters, yard poles, open gate posts, roof edges. The 20000mAh / 15W line earns its price where the panel will be partly shaded by a building or canopy for part of the day, where the monsoon or rainy season delivers long overcast stretches, or where the camera is installed somewhere nobody wants to revisit — a mast, a remote paddock, a tower at the far end of a plantation. A distributor stocking only the cheaper line will eventually take a return that was never a product fault; a distributor stocking only the expensive one loses easy volume on straightforward sites.

For most territories the sensible opening mix is heavier on 10F66 for volume and a smaller block of 15F66 for the difficult installations and for demo units — a 15F66 sitting under a shop awning still records, which is a more persuasive showroom argument than any spec sheet.

Why dual lens, and what AOV actually changes

AOV means always-on video: continuous 24/7 recording at low standby power, with AI scene analysis deciding what gets flagged and retained, rather than a PIR sensor deciding what gets recorded at all. The term is industry-generic — it is not a SolaGuard trademark, and you will see other factories use it. What varies between factories is whether the hardware behind the label actually holds up.

The difference matters because PIR triggering fails in specific, predictable ways that customers discover only after an incident: slow movement that never crosses the detection threshold, anything happening just outside the PIR zone, a several-second wake-up delay that clips the beginning of the event, and heat-driven false triggers in tropical afternoons. A buyer whose warehouse camera recorded the aftermath but not the act is a buyer who does not reorder.

Dual lens compounds the advantage. Two 2.0MP sensors on one body let a single unit hold a wide contextual view and a tighter view at the same time — the whole gate plus the area immediately in front of it, the yard plus the loading bay. On a solar site that consolidation is worth more than it is on a wired one, because every additional camera is another panel, another battery, another SIM and another mast. One dual-lens D42G frequently replaces two single-lens units, and against two units of the single-lens SG-C41G-10T66-V* line, the arithmetic usually favours the dual.

Where D42G sits in the AOV range

There are 49 AOV SKUs in total, across four series:

All four are IP66 with microSD up to 128GB. D42G is 34 of the 49 — the volume centre of the AOV range, which is why the code shows up on quotes more often than the others. The full catalogue runs to 150 SKUs; browse it at /en/products/.

Sourcing terms on D42G

The cameras are built by Shenzhen Leksell, established 2012, TÜV Rheinland certified, with CE, FCC and RoHS on the product side. For an importer, the certification set is the part to request in document form early — a customs broker asking for a CE declaration two days before a container clears is a delay nobody budgeted for.

The 10-unit trial is deliberately low so that a distributor can test a territory before committing capital — order a mixed handful of 10F66 and 15F66, put them on real sites in the local climate, and let the field results pick the stocking mix. Vietnamese buyers ship from the Ho Chi Minh City office in 7–10 business days; there is no Hanoi or Bangkok warehouse, so plan around the one location. Full terms are on /en/wholesale/.

The 5–10 minute install figure is a sales argument, not just a logistics note. No trenching, no electrician, no network cabling — mount the bracket, angle the panel, insert the SIM and the microSD, scan the QR. For an integrator quoting a multi-camera rural site, labour is often the largest line in the bid, and removing it is what makes a solar 4G proposal beat a wired one on total cost rather than just on hardware price.

OEM and private label

Private label is available across all 49 AOV models, D42G included, at the 100-unit OEM/ODM MOQ: your brand on the housing, the box and the app-facing identity. Beyond branding, the factory builds to specification — higher resolution than the 1080p–2K standard (4K is a custom/OEM build, not a stock option), larger battery and panel pairings, higher-capacity cards. Those are engineering conversations with real cost and lead-time consequences, so quantity, price and schedule always come from a person, never from a web page. Dealer structure and application are at /en/dealer/.

Checking a D42G quote before you sign it

Four things to verify, all of which have caught buyers out with solar 4G cameras generally:

1. Match the power class to the model number. -10 is 8000mAh / 8W, -15 is 20000mAh / 15W. A quote that pairs a -10 code with the larger battery has been transcribed wrong somewhere.
2. Treat storage as a fixed ceiling. These models take microSD up to 128GB. If a competing datasheet quotes a dramatically larger card, ask which capacity was actually validated on the device rather than which one the slot physically accepts — the two are not the same claim.
3. Read the ingress rating literally. D42G is IP66. A higher rating is a different, more expensive sealing design; nobody upgrades it for free between the datasheet and the carton.
4. Ask whether AOV is the recording mode or the marketing word. Continuous capture with AI scene analysis is a different product from a PIR camera with a long clip length, and the difference shows up in the customer's first real incident, not in the spec table.

For SKU-level pricing on specific D42G variants, certification documents, or an OEM quotation, email info@solaguard.net with the model numbers and target quantity — a variant-level list gets a faster and more accurate answer than a request for "the dual-lens series".