remote battery monitor?

jtdiesel65
jtdiesel65 Solar Expert Posts: 242 ✭✭✭
in Off Grid Solar & Battery Systems #1
Hi,

I'm looking for a way to have remote battery monitoring. I currently have a trimetric at the battery location. I have a Schnieder combox and 2 midnite classics wired into a wireless router. I'm using an android device to view the combox web application for inverter state and the Midnite's Local application to view charge controller state. Neither of those tells me how full the batteries are because voltage will not represent battery state during charge or discharge.

So, I'm looking for some way to have the % of battery charge viewable on the android device. Bogart apprently has an ethernet interface for their pentramtric, but you have to use a Windows application to view the data. So that doesn't work.

Any ideas?

thx
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  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
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    Re: remote battery monitor?

    do you have a WhizBang jr on the shunt? checck out the MidNite board section on the WBJR here http://midniteforum.com/index.php?board=48.0
     
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  • jtdiesel65
    jtdiesel65 Solar Expert Posts: 242 ✭✭✭
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    Re: remote battery monitor?

    No I don't. Does the local app have access to the WBjr data?

    thx
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  • zoneblue
    zoneblue Solar Expert Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭✭
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    Re: remote battery monitor?

    Yeah it does. WBJr is a neat and cheap bit of kit. Worth every penny and then some...
    1.8kWp CSUN, 10kWh AGM, Midnite Classic 150, Outback VFX3024E,
    http://zoneblue.org/cms/page.php?view=off-grid-solar


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