![]() ![]() The negative wire then goes from the battery to the shunt, the shunt to the bus bar and then from the bus bar to all the devices. ![]() The best way to hook things up is to use a bus bar. ![]() Anything that is connected directly to the battery won’t be tracked. For one to correctly track amps in and out, nothing can be connected directly to the negative side of the battery bank other than the shunt. Battery monitors work by means of a shunt installed between the negative post of the battery bank and the “load” (that is, all of the electrical devices). So we started by spending a couple of days tracing and then cleaning up the positive side of things. All of our electric devices worked, but we knew wasn’t right. Barefoot Gal had a number of “idiosyncracies” such as one battery wired directly to the positive bus bar instead of the switch (so power was always on to everything on the bus bar). Pre-Installation Wiring Workīefore we could add the monitor, however, we had to clean up the wiring done by previous owners. The same quick installation guide and owners manual apply to both. Both are available on Amazon ( click here). Since we only had one battery bank, we used the Victron 700. I am not saying that the other brands are bad monitors, simply that Victron was our choice for a simple installation.
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