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--- electrical:12v:battery_monitor [2024/02/14 12:51]
frater_secessus [Victron SmartShunt]
+++ electrical:12v:battery_monitor [2024/02/26 13:38]
frater_secessus [drift and reset]
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   * or a combination of the above
-For those reasons the monitor is regularly reset ("zeroed", "calibrated") when the bank is at a known state of charge.  This can be done at 0% or 100%; for practical reasons most owners will reset them when the bank is known to be at 100%.
+For those reasons **the monitor needs to be reset regularly** ("zeroed", "calibrated") when the bank is at a known state of charge.  This can be done at 0% or 100%:
+  - automatically by the monitor when a certain voltage setpoint is achieved.((14.0v = 100%, for example))
+  - manually by the user.  For practical reasons this reset is usually performed when the user observes the bank to be 100% SoC.
 One rule of thumb is to reset the monitor 1x/week.  There is no harm in doing a reset more often if you happen to notice it's sitting at 100%.  [Hopefully you won't regularly be encountering 0% - secessus]

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