hello thanks for tuning in okay today we're going to take a look at the renegie
battery monitor this is the 500 AMP one
RBM 500 let's run a G battery monitor 500 amp obviously made in China there's the address
there's the key features there 10 volts to 120 volts up to 500 amps
can display voltage current consume power battery capacity all that good stuff
all right inside the Box we got an instruction manual
we have the control unit itself pretty thin
there's the specs
seems like we got a little power cord here for the shunt
this is the actual shunt itself and this
thing is substantial guys this thing weighs it's pretty hefty
excuse me so there's where the red wire would go in from the battery positive that's your battery
negative and your load side negative it's very important which way you put this thing
because you can put it in reverse it comes with a nice little holder here
500 amps and you can see down there it is calibrated I believe they shaved some of
the metal off them rods to get that 500 amp rating and to figure out how
much can go through here because this is a pretty good chunk of steel or whatever it is
you've got your data cable six meters shielded and your mounting screws for the shunt we decided
we're not going to use the mounting screws for the shunt we're just going to go ahead and
take it apart and just use it without it okay we have the shunt off and as you can see
Machining is very good on it
it's nice got a little circuit board there to protect it with epoxy
looks like that's lasered in
yeah so that's about it now in order to connect this thing to the battery which is going to be
your B minus side there you're going to have to use some type of wire gauge now if you're
pulling 500 amps through this off your system the wire is going to be phenomenal so you're going to
want to use like a bus bar so we didn't have one but we went ahead and just made one took a piece
of copper folded it over with our application here we pull maybe 30 to 40 amps not too much so
we're going to go ahead and just use this this can handle probably 60 70 amps this little bus bar
so just get yours according to size so we're gonna get this thing together and get it on
the battery and see how it looks okay we got the bus bar on the shunt as you see it's bent
the step down and clear the bolt here so we have it all hooked up we put the B positive
in there it doesn't matter which size you put it on and there's a tiny screwdriver
flat tip so now we're gonna Mount this to the battery Mount all the negative feeds to this
hook up the power side and then we'll come to the screen and get it plugged in and see what happens
okay as you can see there we have the bus bar standoff the shunt all of the negatives hooked
and the one positive wire going over there so now we'll take a look at the control panel and we'll
start turning some loads on okay we have the 200 amp hour battery hooked up we'll go through all
the features real quick so if you want to turn it on just click any button as you can see there
for some reason it says we're charging but solar panels are off so who knows if you hold this arrow
button over it'll bring up the light module so you can turn it off or you can set the brightness
push okay and come back out there
again this will control the brightness this here you hold it and that turns it off
if you hold down the OK button it'll bring you into here this is where you'll set up
your amp hours and everything so you just hit OK and just go over and set all your stuff and
then hit the Double Arrow back and you'll come out so our full voltage is 13.8 per the book
nine five is the zero power off at 10 8 on the BMS we set our alarm for 75 amp hours
so we'll go back and now we'll turn on some loads and see what happens it says
we're charging which again could be picking up some light outside let's see what happens
all right we turn we turn the charge controller on so now we'll see what's happening
looks like it's taking some power about .01 amps
and we'll flip on the solar panels and I'll see if we get anything
all right we flipped on the solar panels and we don't have anything
or maybe we do in and out it's just fractions we're gonna go ahead and
turn on the inverter now and see what the draw is on the inverter foreign
ergy inverter and it's just sitting there at idle
so we're taking about 10 watts 0.7 amps out so a little less than an amp
all right let's go ahead and put a little load on
it and see what happens we'll put a small refrigerator on it foreign
little dorm size refrigerator so we're pulling down about five six amps
and then we're going to go ahead and plug in a huge deep freezer here and see what that pulls
okay
we turned on the deep freezer now
and we'll go compare it with an amp gauge that we have so it's pulling about 11.4 amps
foreign
so that's about right it's about spot on
all right so that's really it super simple install really the only thing you have to have is some
type of connection from the battery to the shunt and if you're going to be pulling High amperage
then you should probably be using a bus bar as you can see we're only drawing down 12 amps total
through the whole system so all is good that bus bar can handle it that we made no problem
so yeah the final install will be mounting it in a wall wherever you want to mount it so this is a
good little indicator it's showing basically 199 amp hours out of the 200 is going down
100 we can run 16 hours if we stay like this it's drawing 165 Watts drawing 12.2 amps at 13.5 volts
so it's good little information we'll see how it holds up and see if it holds true
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