Battery Monitors - Instructions for a nonelectrical engineer

[Steve O]

I am certainly getting a lot of info from the forum to read and try to digest over the winter.

[Jon Hacking]

Originally Posted by Stu Jackson

Good points, Jon, But spendy? The Victrons are less than $200 and simple to connect. $200 isn't small potatos, but there are a lot more things on a boat that cost more. Like a bunch of batteries...

Good point, Stu. I didn't know Victron battery monitors were so cheap. I think I paid closer to $300, but that was 2009. It seemed a lot for such a tiny Link meter. But as you so correctly point out, it's a lot cheaper to have good battery instrumentation than to spend $3,000 (what I paid) to replace what was probably a still usable 600Ah battery bank.