Balmar smart gauge and 10 hour AH testing
So this guy was selling an open box Balmar smart gauge on fleabay. They are expensive and I go by voltage to gauge my batterys by that. Well he had a make offer price so I lowballed @ $140. He didnt ...
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BFL13 wrote:
I just added more on the testing in the other thread. 12.25 initial drop is not the end of the world, but you are right to say, "hmmm". See the other thread for details.
I have no idea what that gizmo is or does, but you can't have too many gizmos! :)
Gizmo supposed to tell SOC without a shunt.
So Gizmo says 82%. Its been a bit over an hour. That gizmo needs a few charge/discharges to get more accurate..
Ironically the voltage went up after an this first hour. Im up from 12.3 to 12.4 now. Still running 7.5 amps.
SG about 1.270?
82% 12.4v
Conflicting voltage meters. Ill get a reading right at batts to verify.
