Battery Monitors
I've nearly completed my upgrade to my Solar System(Pics coming when I'm done). Thinking(after the fact of course)that I should have considered a Battery Monitor in the upgrade, or at least preparatio...
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Vintage465 wrote:RLS7201 wrote:
A shunt is just another device to get corroded and cause a bad connections.
Meters with hall effect sensors are the way to go for monitoring batteries now days.
All the goodies
Richard
So, with one of these, does the sensor need to go near or at the battery? I suppose if there was an online manual I could get all this info. Thinking that the Victron and the Morning Star are the "standards" for reliability and accuracy, how do these measure up? I like the idea of not needing to cut a shunt in but that's not really a deal breaker in my book. Most of my blanks in my mind are the location of sensors, the location of the read out, and what connects them together. It looks like the base station and the sensor goes near or at the battery and the read out goes........wherever?
The sensor does not need to be near the battery but it does need to surround the battery cable that the battery gets charged and discharged from.
I have done some extensive rewiring on my Bounder and my Hall Effect Sensor is about 13' from my batteries.
Richard
