What's a good battery level monitor?
What's a good monitor that I can install in my Casita to see the battery level throughout the day? Ideally a monitor that draws minimal power since we boondock frequently. When we're camping in an...
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Alternator charging should also pass through the House batts' monitor's shunt. The usual wire from the neg post to the frame for "grounding" is taken from the neg post and now goes on the shunt with all the other neg wires. Then there is one fat wire from shunt to neg post.
If you keep charging past when the monitor says 100%, then your AH counter will be out of whack and needs to be reset to zero once you do get to True Full.
The Trimetric default is to reset to zero when charging stops. It has no real idea what the true SOC is then. I don't like that whole business of how the Tri is supposed to work and the definition of "full" it uses. I do love my Tri though! I just use it "my way" :)
If you have solar and a Tri, it shows "charging" till it gets dark and then amps go negative again so it acts like you are full and resets. So they say to disable auto reset, which works great. Now it keeps counting up and down until sometime you manage to get the batts to True Full and you reset the AH counter to zero yourself.
I have read the Victron manual for how it works, but can't understand it. I would have to have one and see what goes on. Anyway, whatever monitor you have, you must stay on top of it and not let it mislead you.
If you keep charging past when the monitor says 100%, then your AH counter will be out of whack and needs to be reset to zero once you do get to True Full.
The Trimetric default is to reset to zero when charging stops. It has no real idea what the true SOC is then. I don't like that whole business of how the Tri is supposed to work and the definition of "full" it uses. I do love my Tri though! I just use it "my way" :)
If you have solar and a Tri, it shows "charging" till it gets dark and then amps go negative again so it acts like you are full and resets. So they say to disable auto reset, which works great. Now it keeps counting up and down until sometime you manage to get the batts to True Full and you reset the AH counter to zero yourself.
I have read the Victron manual for how it works, but can't understand it. I would have to have one and see what goes on. Anyway, whatever monitor you have, you must stay on top of it and not let it mislead you.
