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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CA Traveler wrote: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."
Ha! You must have read my post about setting off the LP alarm inside the trailer from all the battery fumes when I forgot to turn down the voltage on my adjustable charger :) Also probably set back the life time of my chargers, controllers, inverters, and shunt near the batteries.
Luckily? I am so old, all that gear could outlast me, so I don't much worry about that.
