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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GaryS1953 wrote:I'd suggest to get this Victron monitor. If you amortize the cost over the life of a couple of sets of batteries or the cost of a couple RV's, it's worth the cost.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%.
I have this monitor and also, an analog gauge. The analog gauge can be seen for a longer distance and I have it mounted so I can see at a glance from outside my trailer.
