I have a new Winnebago RV that has two group 31 batteries installed in parallel. I have a new Victron IP65 monitor I want to install. I take a look at the instructions, take a look at the battery bay (pic of the factory spaghetti below) and have NO idea how to hook it up; there’s no simple “move a cable to each end of the shunt, but you can’t have anything attached to a load to that terminal” or at least that I can see. My goal was to get some baselines before adding a third solar panel.
Any suggestions? Please use one syllable words as I’m a total rank amateur when it comes to this. Thanks!!
Wow… OEM installations never fail to surprise me with their nonsense.
Honestly, I’d say get with a systems installer to have all that corrected before your battery monitor installation is attempted. Making sense of what’s going on in there and then correcting it is going to be a bit of a process.
It looks like you have charging on the left battery and the system negative on the right. I think all you need to do is remove the charge negative and the system negative and connect them to the system side of the shunt and then a short cable to common ground on the battery. I wonder if you have enough cable?
