Where to put shunt

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

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.

The shunt's milliamp wire terminals should be soldered. The contact point to the shunt's metal should be mirror bright then a coating of NON PETROLEUM BASED sealer applied over-top. I am so fussy about shunt connections I solder the wires direct to the shunt metal.

I picked up a lab grade Manganin shunt on eBay. Before the internet here took a dump. I would love to find a 4-1/2 digit 100 mv 100-amp meter, but where? I can't even search for one. Grrrr...

Kind of pointless IMO unless you run all your loads through it, because the inverter has to be close the shunt does too.

Battery Monitor install

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