Yep my Cruising Eqpt Co. 28-year old meter is working fine and it was a real bite-in-the-butt when it was introduced, price wise.
It's sad that a lot of folks place metering and monitoring right up there with Chernobyl as far as complexity and time devotion is concerned.
Nothing can be more wrong.
As far as reading and reacting to the morning voltage and -amp hour reading, I consume maybe three seconds.
Glow plug 5 seconds
Cranking 5 seconds
Warm up (water cooled) 5 minutes while I go pick bananas and a melon for breakfast.
Switch online verify Hz and volts
Twist -- one second for the Intermatic Timer. Today 17 minutes otter doer...
Coffee should be brewed...
When the gen burps (charger shuts off) go turn the switch off.
Charging while driving. (4) L16 batteries
6 amps and the batteries need to be set to float. I have one ammeter solely for measuring current going into the batteries.