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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BFL13 wrote:And that is good advice but not always followed including not venting the batteries to the outside. Check out the BFL13 picture above which suggests several different ways to not follow good guidelines.
The example is a shunt on AGMs which don't gas. Mex said early on in this thread you should keep the shunt away from flooded batts.
"Keep shunts, buss bars, fuses and breakers as far away from a flooded battery as possible. A proper hookup will have one single solitary cable connecting the positive post and one single solitary cable connecting the negative post. Of course battery paralleling bridge wires are not counted."
If a shunt has to be mounted closer to the batteries than desired then sometimes you do what is necessary and move on.
