battery monitor

[shaqra]

Hi all.
This is a usefull piece of equipment for battery monitoring on a small scale.
Regards
web page

 

[sarabande]

any known UK agent, please ?

 

[hightech]

http://www.reuk.co.uk/Watts-Up-Meter.htm

 

[pvb]

[ QUOTE ]
http://www.reuk.co.uk/Watts-Up-Meter.htm

[/ QUOTE ]Only a review - they don't sell them.

 

[shaqra]

Checking their web site, you have to order them direct from the USA. A number of them have been bought for use in amateur radio. Look quite usefull for their size.

 

[RCGrootveld]

- Max current is only 100A (Peak) which is not much when you use a 2 KVA Inverter
- It has a built in shunt, so you need to run cables from the batt to the instrument back to the battery, resulting in long and heavy (100A+) resulting in voltage and power loss.
- KWH seams nice to know, but I'm more interested in the Hours to Go with current load.....

Although more expensive, I think the Mastervolt and/or Victron versions (which use an external shunt) are a better investment

 

[muckypup]

Harlequin has the NASA battery monitor which also have an external shunt. Works very well.

S.

 

[Amulet]

Don't put your starter power through it I guess. I have a piddling little boat and a piddling little engine, but it's starter draws in excess of 100 amps. I guess some of you real yachtsmen pump 300 amps through your starter.

Can someone enlighten me as to how these battery monitors handle the peaks from starting the engine?