![]() To get this mounted on the electrics board in the back of the HiLux, I just needed to run some new four-core cabling from the shunt on the battery, and the positive and negative poles to the back of the unit itself. If you’re running on a 24-volt system, it will work just as well, all the way up to 200-volt systems. Set up was fairly straight forward, with just needing to set the high and low limits for the SoC display, and the meter itself is self-ranging, so it will show milliamps all the way up to 300 amps across the meter. Ignore the spaghetti wiring this was while testing it. ![]() Where it gets a little carried away, is that it will also give you current in watts, watt-hour usage, the impedance of both the current drawn and battery, and how long the system has been running for. The kit included a 300-amp shunt, that was simple enough to connect up, a few 100mm long wires to connect it, and the meter itself. The DC battery meter I received gives me all the information I wanted namely amp draw, battery voltage, and a nice SoC meter that works off the voltage of the battery. For the price I paid, it gives me everything I wanted out of an ammeter, in a rectangular package, that cost near-enough to a tenth the price of some of the other gear you’ll find online. So with the story out of the way and the details on the bit of kit he bought, Wes is now happy he can stop referring to himself in the third person, and get on with the review. This then led to Wes spending the 36-quid and having one delivered from over in WA to his place on the east coast, and a little bit of testing ensued. But, had been tested on a Fluke lab-spec power supply, and was accurate. So the bloke he was chatting to, Chris at Sales67, explained he had a digital ammeter that would tick all the boxes, and maybe a couple more, and proper cheap. What Wes wanted was to have something ‘cheap’ that just fed him the information he needed for the back of his HiLux canopy set-up. Now, of course, if you’ve got a full Redarc Manager system or the ARB LINX, this may not be the thing for you. This came about while Wes was on a random internet forum having a conversation with a bloke from WA about digital ammeters, and how there were few options floating about that just gave amp draw, voltage, and some sort of State of Charge (SoC) information, that was accurate, cheap, and was essentially stand alone. Enter, the DC Battery meter from the team over at Sales67. But sometimes, we like to break the mould a touch and have a swing at something way out of left field. Don’t get me wrong, more often than not at RV Daily, we get our resident tech-head Wes to put some of the biggest brands and best-quality gear to the test. Now for a review on something a little left of field.
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