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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if you seldom boondock, have power hookup, and seldom stay more than overnight, not much need for one IMHO. Now, we often boondock for 10 days or more, use solar for power until we need to turn on the generator. Then a good monitor, like a trimetric is worth it. then I can tell pretty close battery state of charge, when to run the generator when to turn it off.
