Thinking a Battery Monitor.............
I've completed my upgrade to my Solar System (There is a thread on "Do it yourself Modifications) Thinking(after the fact of course)that I should have considered a Battery Monitor in the upgrade, or ...
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odenwell wrote:Ed_Gee wrote:
1) the shunt is the sensor that measures all current into and out of the battery. It should be installed in the negative battery cable going to chassis ground. It does not need to be readily accessible. The best quality battery monitors do NOT use bluetooth....the sensor connects to the display monitor by wire cable.
2) a battery monitor will work with any charge controller.
3)no comment....I prefer hard wired display - no bluetooth.
5) shunt type sensors are extremely accurate .....Not sure how accurate Hall sensor types are in comparison.
Bluetooth is bad? That's a bold assertion. My Victron with Bluetooth works great.
For the record, I did NOT say Bluetooth was bad; I merely stated my preference. I will grant, perhaps my comment is out of date now, with the proliferation of Bluetooth in everything.....
