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Trackrig
Explorer II
Sep 04, 2016

Will a small digital meter work for battery voltage?

I have a Nash 26X trailer. It's a nice TT, but it has the standard stupid idiot lights that don't really tell you much. Will a little, easy to mount, cheap digital gauge like this work to tell me my...
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Shadow_Catcher
Explorer
Sep 05, 2016
Actually no, in that no pure voltage meter will tell you the SOC (state of charge). Unless there is no current in our out for a number of hours. The only accurate way is with a battery monitor, Trimetric, or Vectron.
What a volt meter will tell you is if your converter is working.

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