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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DiploStrat wrote:
Before one can answer the original poster's question, we have to ask another question(s), "What do you want the meter to tell you, and why?"
Good question. I've just spent several hundred upgrading my battery bank and adding 200 watts of solar and an MPPT charge controller. My primary concern would be not letting my batteries get below 50%. An alarm/warning of some kind would be nice when they get close to 50%.
