TC Battery Replacement - Upgrade Options
Boy when it rains ... it pours. My 4 year old, non-maintenance free Interstate Group 24, deep cycle 12v battery seems to have given up the ghost. It appears to have boiled on the one side and after ...
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deltabravo wrote:adamis wrote:
If you don't have an ammeter already, I would recommend looking into one so you know your power usage per day is. I bought a cheap one on Amazon for ~$40:
http://a.co/d/dOZN7gA
An ammeter doesn't track amps over time. It just gives a raw amperage number in, or out.
What you need in order to track power usage over tiem is an Amphour meter such as the Xantrex LinkLite or LinkPro
Thank you for the terminology correction. The device I linked to does track power usage over time so I should have referred to it as an Amphour meeting. The description of it is:
"DROK Digital DC Multimeter 0-90V 0-100A Voltmeter Ammeter Power Capacity Time Meter Monitor, Charge-Discharge Battery Tester, Volt/Amp/Watt/Ah Meter Tester, LCD Color Screen with 20mm Hall Sensor"
The Xantrex and and LinkPro are fine products but the DROK unit is a very affordable alternative for those on a tight budget.
