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:
...What do you think of the Vectrin BMV 700, which can be had for around $140?
Everyone goes gaga about the Trimetric but IMO the Victron is the better unit and cheaper. It takes the Peukert effect into it's caculations, has a pre-wired wiring harness and it also gives you the option to add a bluetooth dongle to it so you can set it up and monitor it with an app on your phone. I have it and it's pretty handy. You can also then install the hard-wired monitor somewhere out of the way.
