No wingnuts - just nutsAre you using wingnuts or not?
Yes it will not read the chargers if they are in front of the shunt. Same for any other shunt based battery monitor too...Wired direct to pos & neg terminals. That messes with the Victron 600?
Thanks MS
The battery monitor, in order to "monitor" the state of the bank, MUST see/read/measure all current flowing into or out of the bank."Will not read the chargers"...why does the battery monitor need to read the chargers?
These are AC powered Xantrex Tru-Charge 40+ chargers. Not the alternator charger.
I'm confused (surprised?)
I read that as you have 2 different charges feeding the same batteries? Not a really good idea. Same as a battery charger and alternator feeding at the same time- they can counteract each other and make false readings and voltage supplies.... Or is that you have 2 feeds from the same charger?Somewhere I read about splitting the 2 AC charger feeds to the 2 ends of the battery bank. So I ran one charger to one end and the other charger to the other end.
While the manual is a little hard to "get" it is certainly a must understand. Give it a few reads then try it again. Perhaps the most important item is to program your Ah capacity of the bank.Maine Sail, I installed the V 600, and as you said, it was very easy. I am, however having a little trouble programming it. The manual just isn't very forthcoming on this. Surely it isnt just a matter of holding the setup button for three seconds? Is there some info somewhere on how to do this properly for someone like me who barely know his positive from his negative?
I just powered mine up yesterday. Got any tips on what you did for AH? Yeah, the book seems vague.Thanks MS. After sending you my last message I did in fact finally work out the need for the ampage setting. Hopefully that is all there is to it.
You want to program in the Ah capacity of the total bank. So if you have two deep cycle batteries rated at 105 amp hours then your bank capacity is 210. DO NOT use reserve capacity, MCA or CCA. It must be the batteries 20 hour amp hour rating.I just took the readings off the label on the battery for cold. Not sure if correct or not, but all seems to be working now. Just very electrically challenged, and my Batteries For Morons manual seems to be missing!!
Kirkland Group 24, MCA 700, 85 Amp Hours . Have a bank of two, so 170 AH. Correct?