CA Traveler wrote:
Naio wrote:
CA Traveler, what am I looking at here? Are those blocks of WOOD, with layers of metal let into them? What's all that about? And what are the teeny wires in the housing? My eyes iz confused.
Nope that's brass. The entire unit is a 500A precision shunt which is used with a battery monitor, in my case a Trimetric. The small wires provide the voltage sense capability for the Trimetric to measure battery drain/charge, etc.
For 500A the shunt has a 50mV drop.
Thanks for the explanation :)
And you made the copper thang so you could have a cable that did not go through the shunt? I am surprised Trimetric folks do not include one.