ironridger
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If your app from your charge controller shows everything going on with batteries do you need a shunt monitor?
Imagine your car had no gas gauge or odometer and you just kept track of your fill ups.If your app from your charge controller shows everything going on with batteries do you need a shunt monitor?
No for me. I don't see the added value. Close enough is good enough for me.If your app from your charge controller shows everything going on with batteries do you need a shunt monitor?
My bluetooth Overkill BMS does this for me.The shunt shows me the SOC of the battery and also the amps drawn from the battery. The SCC shows me how much power is being produced.
Thanks. I’m about two months out from having my Overkill BMS installed on the two 24 volt batteries with Eve Cells I’m building. I did not even know the BMS could do this.My bluetooth Overkill BMS does this for me.
Isn’t that what everyone does?Imagine your car had no gas gauge or odometer and you just kept track of your fill ups.
I bet you have an AAA cardIsn’t that what everyone does?
I think in my case, I will keep the shunt where it is to measure the health of both battery packs. I can see with me monitoring two more devices for the BMS, that will be a lot of switching between apps. If I’ve got time this winter, I’d like to see if I could come up with a way to monitor all that on a master console. My daughter writes apps, and I’d ask for help from her.No way to network that I know of. I have to disconnect from one and reconnect to the other.
I would be wildly surprised if you can get an SDK from a "foreign" developer. Of the dozens of SDK's i've requested, i only received one, and that was after i reverse engineered the API and produced something useful.My daughter writes apps, and I’d ask for help from her.
The Victron BMV-712 shunt has a remote meter (wired) you could mount on your console.Can someone please recommend a shunt that would work to provide this information? Am I overthinking this or on the right track?
The Victron BMV-712 shunt has a remote meter (wired) you could mount on your console.
Thats what the Cadillac solution runs.That looks like what I had in mind, but $206 was rather eye-opening. :O
I would just caution to make sure whatever you choose has a rating to handle a marine environment. The console on my boat is somewhat protected, but is still at the mercy of the elements ... not sure how protected your console gauges will be.I am building a new battery (8S, 24v, 55AH, 60280 cells) for my boat. My current batteries have a Daly BMS with bluetooth connection, so I can always check SOC with my Android phone. There is a BT dongle available for the BMS I am using on the new build, but from what I read, it doesn't work well and I would like something more reliable. (Even the BT on the existing batteries is flaky.) I would like to connect a shunt and wire that to a meter on the dashboard of my boat.
Can someone please recommend a shunt that would work to provide this information? Am I overthinking this or on the right track?