[RE-wrenches] State of Charge Meter for Sol-Ark

[Chris Schaefer]

Why not revert to the tried, trued and tested Trimetric 2030 from Bogart
engineering? I miss the old 2020 units that we installed on every off grid
system back in the day.

Christopher

On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 11:38 AM Glenn Burt via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> Cheap tablet mounted to the wall?
>
> -Glenn
> Sent from my 'smart'phone, so please excuse typos and spelling errors.
>
> ------ Original message------
> *From: *Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches
> *Date: *Sun, Feb 4, 2024 10:30 AM
> *To: *RE-wrenches;
> *Cc: *Jason Szumlanski;
> *Subject:*[RE-wrenches] State of Charge Meter for Sol-Ark
>
> Are there any off the shelf solutions to view battery SOC via a wired
> meter mounted remotely on a property? I have a client with a simple voltage
> based meter for lead acid batteries that they are accustomed to using as a
> quick and approximate gauge of SOC. They want something similar for their
> new Sol-Ark with EG4 LL batteries.
>
> They will have smartphone app visibility, but they want something they can
> see inside the house without picking up a phone or going out to the
> inverter. Ideally the SOC will come from the inverter or the battery
> itself, not an external source (to avoid discrepancies).
>
> Jason Szumlanski
> Florida Solar Design Group
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