Good info Steve! I use the 404 sometimes in that fashion. Thanks, Matthew
> On 25 May 2018, at 14:38, Steve Clunn via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > This is a great meter at a good price but I have found one glitch that > people should know about when using this meter to turn off battery chargers > at a set voltage. The way the instructions show to hook the meter up > requires that the meter not lose power for it to hold the battery charger > relay in an off State. So if you lose your 12 volt power that powers the > meter it won't shut off the relay that you have controlling your battery > charger. If you configure it the other way so that when the relay in the > meter is on the battery charger is on then you constantly have the relay in > the meter on and drawing current. This is not so bad a trade-off but adds > more to your 12 volt load. if the relay that's turning your charger off is > also on the 12 volt system then having the 12 volt system go down may not > cause a problem as your relay that's controlling the charger will also > stop but that said it is something to think about when you're setting > your system up. One could also set the meter up so that when the batteries > were fully charged and the meter relay turned off the charger that it also > turned off the power to the meter and then we wouldn't have that continuous > load on the system. Steve clunn with Greenshedconversions.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180525/8febe274/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
