Do I really need a $200 Battery Monitor??
Been reading and looking at battery monitors. Seems like they come in all sizes shapes and prices, some with a shunt and some without. Do the roughly $200 monitors like Trimetric, Bluesky, Magnum, X...
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Look up poor man's trimetric thread on this sites Tech Issues forum
Just under $40
Measures volts, amps charge and discharge, and shows percent of battery charge level and amp hrs left in the bank, even watts charge or discharge
All at the push of a button
If all you want is voltage , there lots of $10 meters
If you want to measure how much power you are using you need an amp meter
Any thing much over 10 amps usually need an external sensor
Either a shunt or "hall effect named sensor coil"
Just under $40
Measures volts, amps charge and discharge, and shows percent of battery charge level and amp hrs left in the bank, even watts charge or discharge
All at the push of a button
If all you want is voltage , there lots of $10 meters
If you want to measure how much power you are using you need an amp meter
Any thing much over 10 amps usually need an external sensor
Either a shunt or "hall effect named sensor coil"
