Voltmeter Gauge

[ghost123uk]

Ah, yes, good point

A good reason to ensure that the meter has it's own dedicated live feed from the battery of course

Aren't "we" up early for a Saturday

[itchyfeet]

Aren't "we" up early for a Saturday

an hour lie in, some of us working lot get up earlier in the week, 6am for me, by 7am on a saturday I'm awake even if i dont want to be

[CJH]

^^^^^^ I nearly wrote that then i realised that if you measure in two different places and something else is drawing current down tge wire you will see a voltdrop, i think thats what cjh meant

Thank you for your generous interpretation of what I wrote All I meant was that when I was looking for a feed for my voltmeter some of the places I poked my multimeter probe into didn't show the same as the reading at the battery. Ghost's point is useful though - provided you can find a feed that represents battery voltage, the meter ought to measure that regardless of the thickness of that wire.

[Negativegravity]

Dedicated live feed from both batteries. Decent gauge wire. I'll nip down later and play around to try and get it working!

[itchyfeet]

Dedicated live feed from both batteries. Decent gauge wire. I'll nip down later and play around to try and get it working!

Fused i hope

wired mine into a box with a lead and a ciggy lighter plug on the end for now, too busy to do it permanently at the moment, dont really want to cut a panel either so not decided where to put it.

[ghost123uk]

wired mine into a box with a lead and a ciggy lighter plug on the end for now, too busy to do it permanently at the moment, dont really want to cut a panel either so not decided where to put it.

Ha, that's exactly what I have done to mine ! I have a 2 way (+usb)) socket connected directly to my leisure battery so I use that. Could also of course plug it into the main ciggy plug, but never felt the need to monitor that.