What's a good battery level monitor?
What's a good monitor that I can install in my Casita to see the battery level throughout the day? Ideally a monitor that draws minimal power since we boondock frequently. When we're camping in an...
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"Without plug ins, we also generally don't sit at float for hours upon hours to get your monitor back to 100%."
Don't need to be on float for hours & hours
Batteries don't really need floating in an RV that's in use, floating is too keep an emergency battery service from self discharge
Once batteries reach float, they are full
It's not the monitor that needs to come to 100%
In many instances, The monitor will reach 100% before the batteries are full, watching the charge rate is what is necessary with lead acid batteries,
Since lithium batteries have very little compensation needs, just count AmpHrs in and out, I think the one I using would work quite well,
If l had the $$ for lifepo4 I would get whatever monitor I thought was best for the job, be it Victron or something else
Don't need to be on float for hours & hours
Batteries don't really need floating in an RV that's in use, floating is too keep an emergency battery service from self discharge
Once batteries reach float, they are full
It's not the monitor that needs to come to 100%
In many instances, The monitor will reach 100% before the batteries are full, watching the charge rate is what is necessary with lead acid batteries,
Since lithium batteries have very little compensation needs, just count AmpHrs in and out, I think the one I using would work quite well,
If l had the $$ for lifepo4 I would get whatever monitor I thought was best for the job, be it Victron or something else
