Where to put shunt
I need to install the shunt for my battery monitor. Batteries are wired to the inverter already. Is it necessary to put the shunt directly next to the battery bank or can I put it inline between the...
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JRRNeiklot wrote:BFL13 wrote:
Please say what monitor the shunt is for. A battery monitor like the Trimetric takes all the neg wires to its shunt and then just one fat wire to the battery neg post.
A solar monitor only monitors the solar so it's shunt is upstream of the Trimetric
Trimetric 2030-RV
The manual is on-line at Bogart if you don't have one.
The battery neg post only has the one fat wire from the Tri shunt. (The wires linking the batteries in a bank stay though, so you could have two wires on the neg post)
The other end (away from the battery neg post) of the shunt takes all the negs from everything--including the battery to frame "ground"--
You might need a buss bar (using the inverter neg terminal as a buss helps) to collect some of those neg wires and then run a fat wire from the neg buss to the shunt. The short shunt bolts can only take a few stacked lugs before they won't reach to screw in.
