I have a small battery charger and a inverter on my battery. Can I install the volt meter direct to the battery, X and - terminals?
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Yes you can. Works just fine. You can put a fuse between the positive poles if you'd like. It would protect meter from frying. Same type of fuses that you use in your car.
1175398
That's an open question. I'm not sure what you are using this for. The fuse is determined by the size of the load and not the battery. If you read the directions on the charge controller, I used a SunSaver 10L Charge Controller with LVD, it will give you some assistance depending on the DC load. If you are hooking up an inverter to the battery you will follow the recommendations of the inverter manufacture. Otherwise expand a little on your intended use.
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I don't see why not, I have mine hooked up to my batteries so basically I'm using it like a multi-meter.as long as you're not going over the voltage rated for the meter.use caution as most 12v panels exceed 20v open curcuit.
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Thank you for contacting us about your battery tender. Unfortunately, the ring terminals will be too small for standard automotive terminals, but you would be able to use the alligator clips that are provided with the charger.
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You will need a positive and negative cable of appropriate length between the Battery and the inverter. Size of cable should be able to run maximum output at the incerter(6 gage would suffice. Also include on the positive cable(within 6 inches of the positive battery terminal) a 60 amp fuse or dc rated breaker to protect the wire between the battery and the inverter. That will get you going and protected. Plug in your ac devices and go.
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We install the fuse on the positive cable (red) of the battery. We utilize a charger/inverter combination so only 1 cable connecting to battery and use a fuse that must equal or exceed the Minimum DC Fuse rating in your inverter/Charger's nameplate as recommended by the manufacturer of the inverter/charger which in our case since we use a 1500 W Inverter is 200A
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I think "directly" is not recommended, but I cut some stainless tubing into 1/2" spacers and routed my mounting screws thu them. This allowed air circulation around the unit. Be sure and check the performance of your batteries regularly. If one starts to die, your charger will destroy the other and itself.
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No, I don't think so. This unit does not give you the battery voltages, even as it charges. And it is AC powered so it needs to be plugged in to a normal wall socket.What you want is the -- INNOVA 3721 Battery and Charging System Monitor -- search for it! 14 bucks.
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No. Leave it hooked up, just hook up the tender to the pos and neg posts of the battery and plug the tender into 120VAC.
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I don't know - as I understand it, connections are made directly to the battery to keep it at full power. If your battery supplies power to the inverter then I'd suppose you have power at the inverter. A direct connection to the inverter??? If you find that it works I'd like to know. good luck.
1181120
I have not used a voltage meter on the battery to test the accuracy of the battery tender. I just know that the tender works for me.
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hook the inverter to the battery bank. there is no way to run those kind of amps through the battery controller.
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Yes. You would need one meter for each of the hot legs from the generator. That's exactly how I hooked mine up. The beauty is, you can make sure the voltage holds steady, while monitoring the amperage in each side.
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Just follow the instructions, the unit will know that you have a 12 volt system and will work with any panels that you connect without any user input . You only need to set the battery type and size. Setting the size will only be necessary if you want the state of charge on the remote display to be accurate. The battery type is needed to get the correct charge profile. Connecting loads directly to the battery is the simplest but the remote meter will not be able to display load volts , amps and amp/hours of use.
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Sure will! Note this though. When this is connected to the battery, and the charger is on, this will only read the voltage of the charger. You will have to disconnect the charger to read the battery voltage. Sorry! That's electronics in parallel. :)
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You can certainly connect it directly to the battery; however that connection needs to be fused appropriately. Also, "the winch" you referenced may be an issue since the auxiliary fuse panel is only rated for 100 amps. If you wire directly to the battery I would ensure that you have an inline 100 amp fuse close to your battery. I installed mine with a reset-able breaker (100 amp) between the battery and the fuse panel.
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After my last response I remembered how it was wired. You will need to read voltage at the battery. On the back of the meter is a plug with a 2 wire pigtail. The pig tail wires are red and black. The black wire goes to the negative post on the battery. The red wire goes to the positive post on the battery and the battery voltage will light up and you can read it all the time. The problem wiring it this way it is always on and can drain the battery of its voltage over time. The other way is wire the meter through an off and on switch. The black still goes to the negative battery terminal but you need to bring a red wire from the positive side of the switch and then on the wire coming out of the switch take that wire and connect it to the positive battery post. When you flip the switch off and on the meter will register. If you are not sure when the switch is on or off. A multimeter can be used. Set to ohms put one lead on one switch connector and the other lead on the other switch connector. One side will be able to read ohms and the other side will not as you flip the switch back and forth. The side that reads ohms goes to the positive terminal. Hope this all helps.