Warranty: Bogart Engineering warranty policy is to repair at no cost any of their products that develop a problem not due to customer misuse. They will help you maintain your batteries.** A shunt is required, and is not included. The TriMetric is used to monitor battery systems used in remote homes, RVs or boats that have batteries that store solar, wind, or possibly generator powered chargers. It is a stand-alone monitor, but it can also work in tandem with the new SC-2030 charge controller for optimized battery life, capacity use and efficiency. The TriMetric TM-2030 is Bogart's new battery monitor. The 2030RV-F comes with its own cream colored enclosure designed to be surface mounted to a wall, so does not need an additional mounting enclosure! 100 or 500 amp shunts are used most often. You will need to purchase a shunt separately. * The recommended fuse holder and 1 Amp fuse are now included. That is a great feeling.Bogart Engineering TriMetric 2030 TM-2030-RV-F > Watching the voltage climb and the battery ‘percent full’ value climb as the sun rises is very neat! The battery bank is full by 09:30 AM and I can burn as much electricity as I like. I am entirely LED equipped so leaving all lights on doesn’t draw much power, so, I have to use things like fans, incandescent lights, and a small inverter. Believe it or not, this takes a great deal of effort. I’ve drawn the house batteries down to the 80% level overnight. It is fun to run various electrical components after dark and be able to see the amperage being drawn and the battery ‘percent full’ change. I have thoroughly enjoyed playing with this new tool. It is certainly not difficult – just read the manual. Configuring the monitor requires a read or two of manual as everything is done with just two buttons. The monitor is very capable is this mode only. Initially, it is setup to provide just the basics and only requires setting three values. The Trimetric monitor has a bunch of features. These two add-on’s would allow the charge controller to do a better job by having an accurate sense of the battery voltage and temperature. Of course, while I was at it… I also ran a battery voltage sense cable and battery temperature cable to the MorningStar MPPT solar charge controller. I ordered a 50′ cable and just barely had enough. This required a run from the battery bank in the very front of Shaneeda, to the rear axle, up thru the floor, and then forward to my “electric panel” location. I wanted to follow the existing electrical wiring and not punch a new hole anywhere. The cable from the shunt to the Trimetric monitor is a not so easy – at least in my case. For this, I had to make one very short length of cable. You simply need a place to mount the shunt and the correct cables to connect it to the battery. In my case, I needed to install a 500 amp shunt at the battery bank and then run the cables. Installing the Trimetric Battery Monitor is pretty simple but that doesn’t mean that some effort is not required. I decided that knowing exactly what was going on with my 12 volt electrical system would be very beneficial, provide a great deal of peace of mind, and would be well worth the two-hundred dollars that the Trimetric battery monitor costs. However one does run the risk of damaging the batteries (over-depleting) and is constantly wondering what state things are in. As a result of that experiment, I began to understand how nice/convenient it would be to know what is happening with your battery bank. Why? Well, that is the question I had prior to spending ten days boondocking with solar only. So, I followed their lead and purchased one too. While researching solar power on the Internet, one cannot miss the many references to the Trimetric Battery Monitor.
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