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you know when it comes time to actually

install a battery monitor we see a lot

of service calls the bring us on boats

and people are complaining the battery

monitors aren't working or the defective

but the reality is as with most products

the problem is generally installation

when you're installing a battery monitor

the most important thing to know is

especially the location of the shunt and

making sure that the shunt captures all

the current so what happens generally

over time is either you'll have battery

banks in multiple locations or batteries

kind of place in different places on the

boat and then you'll have a shunt and

people are going to think oh you just

put it on the negative somewhere on the

negative but you need to make sure that

that negative is an aggregate negative

and nothing can bypass that jump and it

measures current by measuring voltage

but what's really essential is that

nothing bypasses so commonly what you're

going to find on boats is going to find

loads that are directly connected to a

battery like for example a heater

that's what heating specials are told to

do is to connect directly in the battery

and often what they're going to do is

they're going to come and install their

heater but they're going to bypass the

shock not understanding what the shunt

does and so then what happens is your

battery monitor only sees loads

unrelated to the heating system and so

magically your heater system doesn't

take any DC loads so that's certainly

one of the big errors that we see with

battery monitors is the shunt location

and that nothing bypasses efficient

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