Ammeter/ Volt meter adjustment
I installed a cheap meter to read volts and amps sometime ago along with a shunt. There are two pots on the meter one for volts and one for amps. The volts I set with my volt meter but the amps I can ...
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One thing that puzzled me for some months after I installed a trimetric was low amps from my solar. What I finally discovered was my generator start cables were wired directly to the battery. I didn't think it mattered because I wasn't interested in the small amount of power occasionally consumed to start the generator. What I didn't know at the time was the negative to the generator was also frame grounded at the generator. This created a bypass path around the shunt. The fix was to lift the generator negative at the battery and all was well. CHECK YOUR GENERATOR DC NEGATIVE!
