They each have a separate solar charge controller and they are linked through a Cooper Bussmann battery balancer/equalizer.ĭo I need two BMV-712 monitors (one for each bank)? Or can I set up one as the main monitor and the other as a second battery? As they are connected through the battery balancer, will that confuse the capacity calculation? There are two banks of 6V AGM batteries, one set up for 24V and the other as 12V. Thanks again.I have a Roadtrek Adventurous CS with an unusual battery bank setup. If I am unhappy with this placement, I may indeed use your great illustrated description to relocate it. I instructed him to leave the long wire attached in case I want to move the monitor elsewhere in the future. There is, he discovered, a piece of wood over the wheel well under the hatch where he will secure the shunt and the monitor, placing the monitor in such a way to make it easily visible when I lift the hatch. I have requested my tech to place it alongside the shunt, which will be placed under the dinette seat next to the pantry. Also is the consideration of avoiding putting another hole in the interior fiberglass, when in the future, for example, a different monitor may be desired. However, I finally decided on a different location, mostly due to the oft-repeated reminder that the new product is blue-tooth enabled. Others considering this location will benefit for sure from your help. Yours looks sharp and just the way I imagined it would look. That is exactly the spot that I wanted, and my tech and I discussed completing just about exactly the same procedures as you describe for placing the monitor in that location. Thanks so much, Minnesota Oli, for your detailed, illustrated description. I have a 2019 Oliver #475 and there was this spot open to use for mounting the monitor. You will notice that the back side of the hole for the monitor is in a area that transitions to a different wall thickness in the middle of the hole so I used the threaded ring on the back in combination with the front mount that is provided with the monitor. Now you can pull the cable the rest of the way up to where the monitor will be mounted. Then from the access hatch on the top of the pantry side wall feed the fish tape down between the walls to the hole you drilled in the side of the inner pantry shell. Now using a fish tape pull the cable up from basement into the pantry. The drill needs to be sized to allow the plastic terminal on the end of the cable to pass through the hole. Now use the drill to cut a trough between the two holes. Then drill a hole through the side of pantry inner shell. Looking into the pantry door, the inside corner to the front of the trailer is where you will drill down through three layers of fiberglass, pantry inner shell, pantry outer shell, and base cabinet. The shunt for the monitor is located in the battery compartment so the area I picked for mounting the monitor is directly above it, although it was challenging to connecting the wire between the shunt and the monitor. I admit that the app for the phone is much more user-friendly but for a quick look or for some reason your phone is not working or available I still would not want to be without the monitor.
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