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Originally Posted by kbudd
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You might want to look at the SmartGuage which is more accurate than a battery monitor. As
batteries age a battery monitor becomes more and more unreliable because the pre-sets you have to enter change - Ah capacity - Peukerts - charge efficiency - and the
batteries have a self- discharge every month that a battery monitor cannot measure. We have a BEP and have recently bought a Smartguage because as much as I did to try and synchronose the BM to 100% when I knew the battery was at 100% and as much as I tried to adjust the other parameters it always seemed to be wrong. Smartguage takes time(Cycles) to "learn" your battery bank and improves its accuracy with time - so I am now monitoring my battery monitor with interest.
If you have
solar consider an Outback or Blue Sky solar controller, with the optional
remote programmer and Battery Monitor.
See
posting on
"Trickle Charge with Solar Panels".