Battery charge/discharge indicator?
I'm pretty sure the ammeter in my old 1990 Winnebago Warrior is shot. It doesn't move and the needle stays slightly to the charge side. I would like to add a display to my dashboard that has two L...
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I can see how you could have such a thing, but not what good it would do you while camping.
The Trimetric shows when you have pos or neg amps going in or out, but you can't really do anything about it, whatever the amps are doing.
Solar is pos and when you need to run some item, it will be covered by the solar or not, there is nothing you can do about it if amps go neg while that is running.
What's the point? You watch your "morning voltage" each day till it gets down to 12.1v and now you must recharge the batts. Each moment between recharge times that amps go pos or neg is of no interest as such in my experience as it is all momentary.
The Trimetric shows when you have pos or neg amps going in or out, but you can't really do anything about it, whatever the amps are doing.
Solar is pos and when you need to run some item, it will be covered by the solar or not, there is nothing you can do about it if amps go neg while that is running.
What's the point? You watch your "morning voltage" each day till it gets down to 12.1v and now you must recharge the batts. Each moment between recharge times that amps go pos or neg is of no interest as such in my experience as it is all momentary.
