Smartgauge battery monitor
Available from our stock here in Spain for 210,00 Euro
Keep an eye on your capacity, and never discharge your batteries below 50%
If you keep yourself to this rule, your batteries will live three times longer. A true deep cycle battery bank is worth at least 30% of the whole solar system cost. Preserving its life threefold is good economy, but to enforce this you need proper battery monitoring. That is why the Smartgauge is a smart investment.
Key Benefits
True battery value in percentage….Simple 2 wire installation….Suitable for 12 or 24 volt systems….Automatic self-setup and adjustment…..User programmable alarm output….Self compensation for battery ageing.
Why buy this?
Even after many years of service as a solar installer, I still have trouble extracting the right state of charge on a battery bank from the voltage reading. The reason is simply that unless you shut down all loads and charge sources for about 45 minutes, and apply a voltage meter directly on the battery terminals, you have no true voltage reading. When the batteries are charging the voltage will be significantly higher. When the sun has set, and you are using your batteries it will reverse.
The voltage will be lower than the true charge state, as long as you have a load on them. Depending on the size of the load the voltage will even vary more.
The smartgauge tells you the true value in percentage
Many lesser meters count the Amps entering and exiting the batteries, but the batteries are not a 100% efficient storage unit. Even with no load connected, the batteries discharge themselves. It does not take much reckoning to realise this affects the precision of amp counters. Whether they display percentage or not, They simply become adrift.
The Smartgauge due to advanced programming and reading of the Voltage instead of the Amps, keeps true track of your capacity. This means that you have absolute control over the key information in any solar system, which would be:
How much energy can I spend today?
By installing the meter inside your house at a convenient place, you can monitor the systems rhythm on a daily basis. Get to know your true capacity, and plan accordingly.
If you combine the percentage information with a bit of planning and the weather forecast, you never have to see the dreaded 50% capacity on the smartgauge display.
We live and depend on this monitor ourselves.
