I use a three meter homemade DC MONITOR that monitors the DC VOLTAGE of my two selected BATTERY groups and the total DC CURRENT being pulled from the two selected Battery groups. The DC CURRENT meter also shows me how many DC AMPs is being demanded from the on-board Converter/Charger unit when charging the selected battery groups.
This is wired into my DC SYSTEM like this...
The only thing I would gain by using the TRIMETRIC model would be the settable DC ALARM when the DC VOLTAGE would drop to a particular DC Level. Presently I have to watch the DC MONITORING panel to determine when it is approaching 12.0VDC when being used.
My DC MONITOR PANEL only provides me information as to the status of my battery groups so that I will not let them get below their approximately 50% charge state. When I see 12.0VDC on the selected Battery Group I will stop using the batteries until I get them charged back up to their 90% charge state.
In my case this is all planned to happen around 8Am each morning when I am allowed to run my 2KW Honda Generator. Most all of the places we go to has generator run-time restrictions in place...
Roy Ken
