What is a Battery Monitor?
A battery monitor, often referred to as a battery gauge, is essentially a fuel gauge for your RV, boat or off-grid cabin’s battery bank. It provides real-time information about the energy or charge remaining in your battery bank at any given time.
How Does a Battery Monitor Work?
A battery monitor is an essential device that continuously tracks the energy or charge flowing into and out of your battery bank. By accurately calculating the remaining energy or charge, it ensures you stay informed about your battery bank’s status. Think of a battery monitor as your RV house battery bank’s personal finance manager, providing crucial insights and updates just like a financial program does for your bank account.
Why Use a Battery Monitor?
Battery monitors are invaluable for maintaining your power system’s health. At a glance, they inform you if you have sufficient reserves to power devices like your TV, cooktop, or CPAP machine overnight. They also help you detect if your batteries are losing their capacity to store charge as they age, alerting you when it’s time to replace them. You can easily perform monthly capacity tests to track changes over time.
Do I Need a Battery Monitor for My Motorhome or off-grid cabin?
Absolutely! A battery monitor is especially crucial if you spend a lot of time off the grid or boondocking. A motorhome without a battery monitor is like a car without a dashboard fuel gauge. It helps you manage your energy usage and ensures you always know the status of your battery bank.
Key Features of a Quality Battery Monitor
- Real-Time Monitoring: Provides up-to-date information on your battery’s charge and energy flow.
- Capacity Testing: Allows you to perform regular tests to check battery health and longevity.
- Alerts and Notifications: Notifies you of any issues or when your batteries need attention.
- User-Friendly Interface: Offers an intuitive display, making it easy to understand and manage your RV’s battery bank.
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The Ultimate Battery Monitor: Trimetric TM-2030
For over three decades, Trimetric Battery Monitors have set the gold standard in battery monitoring technology. The latest TM-2030 model continues this legacy of excellence, offering unparalleled precision and reliability for all battery types, including AGM, flooded cell lead acid, lithium LFP, and nickel iron
Key Features:
- Unmatched Longevity: Trimetric monitors installed 35 years ago are still operational, showcasing exceptional durability
- Exclusive rPC Display: The only monitor on the market that computes and displays replaced charge percentage, ensuring optimal battery health
- Versatile Compatibility: Works seamlessly with various battery systems, including 12V, 24V, and 48V setups
Advanced Capabilities:
- Comprehensive Monitoring: Track voltage, current, state of charge, and more with ease
- Customizable Alarms: Set low battery alerts based on voltage and charge percentage
- Effortless Integration: Pairs perfectly with the SC-2030 Solar Charger for enhanced charging control
- Streaming data for integration with automation systems
Why Choose Trimetric TM-2030?
- Precision Engineering: better than +- 0.5% accuracy in Amps measurement
- Robust Design: failure rates well under 0.1% after 25 years in service
- Wireless Management: When combined with the WF-2030 Remote WiFi Module, enjoy effortless battery management using a smartphone
- Extended Battery Life: Prevent sulfation and optimize charging with customizable parameters
Simplify your energy management experience with the Trimetric TM-2030. Whether for your RV, boat, or off-grid home, this monitor ensures you’re always in control of your power resources. Don’t settle for less – choose the industry leader in battery monitoring technology.
●Shunt based Battery Monitor. More accurate, stable & reliable than Hall effect based monitors.
●Measures battery % full, based on amp hour measurements for accurate information on state of charge (SOC). This method is more accurate than meters
●Use the TM-2030 Battery Monitor with the WF-2030 WiFi module for remote access from smartphones, tablets and PCs. WIFi offers better range than Bluetooth.
●Allows Amp-hrs based battery charging when used with the SC-2030 Solar charger to prevent or minimize sulfation. This feature is exclusive to our products and has been demonstrated to extend battery life.
● Displays battery charging or discharging Amps (or Watts). Useful for conducting energy audits of your system and help you determine if you need to add storage (or charging) capacity.
● Tracks # of days since the last time batteries were charged or equalized.
● Suitable for 12, 24 & 48V battery banks.
● Audible low battery alarm, based on volts and % full. May be silenced. Avoid inverter shutdowns by properly charging the batteries.
● Shows replaced percentage of charge, compared to most recent discharge. To extend battery life, charge batteries 5-20% more than what was taken out during the last discharge event.
● Incorporates lightning protection.
● Easy to read display. If needed, display may be turned off.
● Logs battery bank data that is useful for troubleshooting your system.
● Provides streaming battery bank data on its serial data port.
Data for each of the last five charge/discharge cycles:
● Length of the cycle.
● How long ago the cycle ended.
● Lowest % full reading
● Lowest battery voltage.
● Cycle charge efficiency (percent)
Data for each of the last five days.
● Highest voltage that day.
● Lowest charging current.
● Total percentage overcharge for that day.
● Sizes: smaller (RV) is 3 x 5-1/4 x 1-3/8 inches deep. Larger (A) is 4-1/2 x 4 -3/4 x 1-1/4 inches deep.
● Requires a shunt: Either a 500A/50mV shunt that allows current measurements from 0.1-400 Amps. Or, a 100A/100mV shunt that allows current measurements from 0.01- 75 Amps. L
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