Re: [Electric Boats] Battery Monitor

for our offgrid home installs we use a bogart tri/penta metric, or a
outback dc flexnet.

Steve Spence
Renewable energy and self sufficiency
http://www.green-trust.org
http://arduinotronics.blogspot.com/

On 10/13/2010 02:46 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
>
>
> This is exactly the question I've been meaning to ask. I can put an
> ammeter on the motor leads to tell how much juice the motor is taking
> but really that's not even what I'm interested in. I want to know the
> net juice flowing into and out of the battery bank and a 'fuel gauge'
> type reading of how much energy is in the bank.
>
> One benefit of such a system that occurred to me is when underway with
> the battery bank full, I can balance the output of the solar panels and
> the motor turning slowly over and get a little boost from the solar
> power that otherwise would be going to waste. I know even with a few
> hundred watts of solar it wouldn't be much but it could help.
>
> I was going to order the PakTrackr but now I'll wait to see what the
> group has to say.
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Doug <dj2210@yahoo.com
> <mailto:dj2210@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> What is everyone using to measure their run time or capacity left on
> the battery bank. I am familiar with the PakTrakr but are their any
> others for a 48v system?
>
>
>

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