Yacht Devices NMEA2K battery monitor.

[Yellow Ballad]

This looks interesting, I've always put off a battery monitor as I didn't want another screen to put on the boat but I'm always curious to how much juice is being used. I like that I can use my I70 to display voltage/draw. I found another pic showing the shunt is wired into the positive side of the system, I always thought it should be negative? Looks like you have to source your own shunt as well, I guessing a 50 or 100amp shunt would be suitable for the "house" loads but are there better quality ones or specific ones I would need?

Thoughts/ alternatives?

Yacht Devices News: New product: NMEA 2000 Battery Monitor

 

[doug748]

This looks interesting, I've always put off a battery monitor as I didn't want another screen to put on the boat but I'm always curious to how much juice is being used. I like that I can use my I70 to display voltage/draw. I found another pic showing the shunt is wired into the positive side of the system, I always thought it should be negative? Looks like you have to source your own shunt as well, I guessing a 50 or 100amp shunt would be suitable for the "house" loads but are there better quality ones or specific ones I would need?

Thoughts/ alternatives?

Yacht Devices News: New product: NMEA 2000 Battery Monitor

* Isn't that the shunt shown on the left hand side of the illustration? Looks like one, I have no real idea.

I fitted a Nasa BM 1 which comes with a 100 amp shunt so that should do you. The next model comes with a 200 amp fitting but I have had no problems with starting loads and expect none.

It's a brilliant piece of kit and great fun to watch if you have a windgen or solar panel, I am easily amused.
That NMEA job looks very UK expensive for what it is but if you want the features, that's the price you pay.

* Just seen it says not supplied.