I don't like straying from the accepted marine solutions but there are more
battery monitors out there than the Link and Blue Sea systems. There's the
Trimetric 2025-RV and the Doc Wattson R102. Don't know anything about either.
Readouts may be in KWH and not AH.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandevile, LA
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> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 10:28 PM
>Subject: Re: Stus-List xantrex link 20
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>Yea, it's a good idea, but going with a dedicated starting battery isn't in my
>immediate future.
>
>So, with those of us going old school with 1-all-2 battery switch, one monitor
>could work to check voltage/amp on each battery by having the current sensor
>down stream of the switch. Any downside to that?
>
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>From: "Frederick G Street" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 9:12:20 PM
>Subject: Re: Stus-List xantrex link 20
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>Colin's right (as usual… :^). Also, if you go that route, some of he newer
>battery monitors will allow you measure just the voltage of the starting
>battery (in addition to all the functions for the house bank), which is all
>you really need for the start battery, as it rarely gets discharged much. You
>don't really need to know how many amp-hours are in it… and it's better to NOT
>have a shunt on the start battery in any case.
>
>
>Fred Street -- Minneapolis
>S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^(
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>On Dec 3, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Colin Kilgour <[email protected]> wrote:
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>If you move to dedicated house and starting "banks" which I would
>>highly recommend, a Link that only measures one bank will do just fine
>>- because if you have no draw on your starting battery other than
>>starting, why bother monitoring?
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