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• New Old Boat refurb. Battery monitor recommendations.
  • Not giving advise, just asking...
  • I recently installed Nasa Marine's Clipper BM-1 Compact
    • It looks as though you'd need two of these... for an A/B system
      • Yes, each one only handles a single battery bank.
        • I have the same BM-1 unit
          • Sounds like I really need to add a starter battery.
            • Battery setups
              • A/B Switch
                • i considered doing sometyhing like that.
                  • Correct, sort of.....
                    • Gottcha
    • battery monitor
      • Your Link 20 might be best replaced by finding a "used on" if you use it to control the Heart/Xantrex unit.
        • The biggest problme with the...
          • We had the 2000R (Heart version) -- it worked fine until we replaced it with the Mastervolt and sent it to others to use
            • Xantrex still makes a basic remote...
          • What about the XBM?
            • The XBM
      • monitor
  • You might like this one....
    • Fascinating.. Balmar Smartgauge... thanks!