I keep having dead starter batteries on my generator. Is there any way to have this battery voltage show up on the Cerbo so an alarm rule can be created?
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12v gen starter battery Voltage on Cerbo GX?
What is the distance of the generator from the system? Or you to check?
Shunt is really the way. Either using the aux on the shunt or the shunt itself. This is the devie that connects easily to the cerbo.
The other way is a smart battery sense. But doesn't connect to the cerbo.
@dac07800 In case you have one of the supported genset controllers (Fischer Panda, many Deep Sea Electronics models, ComAp InteliLite 4 and even more following soon), you can integrate them via CAN or LAN (Modbus TCP) instead of the relay-based start/stop control. Most of them then report battery voltage next to a lot other useful readings. Plus you are able to configure custom alarms, e.g. for low battery voltage, on VRM.
If it remote starts from the GX the other way to maintain the genset battery is the periodic run function in the GX menu.
As @Alexandra has stated, easiest is going to be with a shunt and then you can set alarms thru the shunt.
