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electrical:12v:battery_monitor [2024/02/14 12:51]
frater_secessus [Victron SmartShunt] 		electrical:12v:battery_monitor [2024/03/06 17:44]
frater_secessus [inexpensive shunts]
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   * or a combination of the above    * 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%: 
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 +  - 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] 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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 By default the backlight is ON when  discharging and FLASHING((slow pulsing)) when charging.  The backlight can be toggled OFF/ON by holding the LEFT+RIGHT buttons at the same time. With the backlight disable charge vs discharge is still displayed by small icons on the left side of the display.  By default the backlight is ON when  discharging and FLASHING((slow pulsing)) when charging.  The backlight can be toggled OFF/ON by holding the LEFT+RIGHT buttons at the same time. With the backlight disable charge vs discharge is still displayed by small icons on the left side of the display. 
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 +== quirks ==
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 +The decimal point is small and moves as numbers increase.  Examples:
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 +  * 1**.**234A (also 0.123A)
 +  * 12**.**34A
 +  * 123**.**4A
  
 === Renogy === === Renogy ===
electrical/12v/battery_monitor.txt · Last modified: 2024/04/26 14:37 by frater_secessus

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