first victron smart shunt

[terrango]

I just bought a smart shunt and i want to wire it up to 3 battery banks to monitor.

I know that it will work with 2 bank, what do i need to do to get 3 or even 4 battery banks working on this unit?

My second question is connecting this smart shunt to multiple banks. Right now i have 3 battery banks going to a main Positive bus bar and Negative bus bar, then from the bus bars (1 pos and 1 Neg) to one of 3 inverters.

Where would the best spot be to tie in the smart shunt?

each battery bank goes into a breaker before connecting to the main bus bar.

Any advice would be great!

Thanks.

 

[timselectric]

Add a second negative bus bar.
Batteries to one and loads to the other.
Shunt goes between them.

 

[terrango]

perfect thank you

 

[timselectric]

Another note of importance.
Any additional charging should be connected to the loads bus bar.
This way everything going into or out of the batteries is seen by the shunt.

 

[629658]

Here is how I did mine. I mounted my shunt inside a protective cover

 

[terrango]

Thanks, how would i go about using the victron shunt to monitor 4 batteries?

 

[timselectric]

Connect the shunt between the batteries and loads/charging.