Standard Blade Fuses (The fuse holders above include 3-amp fuses, but a 1-amp fuse is more appropriate) What to buy.ĪiLi Battery Monitor with 100 Amp Shunt (There is a 350 Amp shunt model as well, but I can’t imagine what you’d be running to need it.) Bluetooth connectivity? My van is 65 square feet. A sticky-note or clever placement addresses this easily. My refrigerator, propane alarm, hotspot, and a few other items are always drawing power… which means that I rarely see my battery monitor screen off. Ultimately, the 75% savings of the clone was worth the slight annoyance of the backlight. There are a couple of things worth your consideration, however!īacklight active anytime power draw or charge is happening. A little bit of research lead me to this, the AiLi Battery Monitor / Voltmeter / Ammeter, which at the time of this article, costs about 70% less than the Victron equivalent.įunctionally, these two are pretty close.
Like so many other pieces of tech these days, if a company can build it, a Chinese manufacturer can clone it.
Having recently switched to lithium batteries, I needed a solution for monitoring their health, but my wallet was already hurting from the batteries themselves. I recently upgraded my batteries and saw that Victron has a full- featured battery monitor in the $160 range. What if you want an exact percentage, want to know exactly how much current is flowing in/out of your batteries at any given time, or have Lithium batteries that don’t have enough voltage drop to determine state of charge by voltage alone?
#Victron battery monitor install full
How do you know how full your batteries are? With AGM or flooded batteries, you can get a rough idea using a “state of charge” graph and your system’s current voltage.
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