Chassis Ground on a Bigfoot truck camper????
Hello all!! I am trying to wire in a Victron BMV 712 battery monitor. The instructions say after relocating all existing negative wires to the load side of the shunt to run a new (thick) wire to ch...
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Back in the 90s I worked for Heart Interface. We had 4 different amp hour meters - very similar to the BMV-712.
I wrote a lot of tech documents about installing them. I also was on the phone all day helping people with questions on inverters / amp hour meter installation.
I always remember the "chassis ground" aspect of the installation instructions throwing everyone for a loop, because they had no idea where the "chassis ground" was, hence the reason I described it like I did above with regard to "there only being ONE cable on the battery negative post, and that cable goes to the shunt"
Once you have accomplished that, from a "chassis grounding standpoint", you're bases are covered, because essentially everything is connected the same as before, it's just that you now have a shunt inline.
I wrote a lot of tech documents about installing them. I also was on the phone all day helping people with questions on inverters / amp hour meter installation.
I always remember the "chassis ground" aspect of the installation instructions throwing everyone for a loop, because they had no idea where the "chassis ground" was, hence the reason I described it like I did above with regard to "there only being ONE cable on the battery negative post, and that cable goes to the shunt"
Once you have accomplished that, from a "chassis grounding standpoint", you're bases are covered, because essentially everything is connected the same as before, it's just that you now have a shunt inline.
