Battery System Monitor Explained

Battery System Monitor Explained

What is a "Battery System Monitor"? Battery system monitors, such as the Xantrex TM500, and the TriMetric 2020 are not controllers.

Instead, they monitor your battery system and give you a pretty good idea of your battery condition, and what you are using and generating.

They keep track of the total amp-hours into and out of the batteries, and the battery state of charge, and other information.

They can be very useful for medium to large systems for tracking exactly what your system is doing with various charging sources.

They are somewhat overkill for small systems, but are kind of a fun toy if you want to see what every amp is doing :-).