But, know that it doesn’t give you a percentage value at rest, unless there is no draw and no active charge. The voltage reading is active with draw and input, so without switching off charging and output an accurate condition is not represented. It’s a good ballpark determinative value but be mindful that you may want to initiate a charge well above the indicated drawdown threshold or risk damage to your bank.
how about from heee ahh, lol, thank you for the video mate very informative, also thank you for the direct link on AMAZON unfortunately it's Currently unavailable.
If you had a Dan Murphy's discount card, you could afford a Victron. Hell, I'm only in Oz as a tourist and I have a Dan Murphy's card. By the way, I use a battery monitor that has an LCD readout and it drawing less than 2 mA, it is connected to my battery ALL the time with no switch.
First! I had a look at one of those before, I have two batteries under the hood, on the app can you switch to see on what battery is doing or its only good for the one battery? Cheers
There's a few different monitoring apps you can use with these devices - the app I'm using is called "Battery Monitor BM2" which is a free app but you can only monitor one battery. There's another app called "Multi-Battery Monitor" - it costs $15 but you can monitor up to 4 batteries (although you'll need one of these bluetooth devices for each battery!).
@@explorebound May grab one from super cheap tomorrow. I do have a duel battery monitoring device in the Hilux where it takes one of those blank spots where you would mount a switch at. Would be nice to have one for my phone as I run two fridges while I do my Perth trips. I live out of the bush. haha
Hey mate cheers for the video !! Does the Matson monitor pick up the percentage from 12.9 volts and start its percentage from there ? As I have a powertech battery monitor that only starts its 100% voltage from the 12.6 volts mark... Cheers
Hi mate, I replied to your Instagram message but incase anyone else reading this is also wondering, the Matson unit shown here also starts dropping the percentage at 12.6V unfortunately - this isn't too much of a concern for me as I use it for the specific voltage reading rather than the percentage. Cheers!
Try monitoring it from inside your home. Waste of money! I bought three of these BM2 Battery Voltage Monitors so that I can check on my batteries of my stored/parked vehicles as well as my daily driver in my garage and driveway and I wanted to be able to check them while sitting in my home. The range is about 12 feet as I have to be at my front door to get a signal. This is typical of Bluetooth devices where they state 10 meters or 33 feet but in unobstructed view, but not under a hood shrouded in metal. If I need to be that close to a vehicle, I might as well pop the hood and take a DMM meter to the battery.
Smart phones are an addictive waste of time that distract you from life itself as you are looking down at them. A home PC is all anyone needs. While you are gawking at your phone for this unneeded function you are missing life as it passes by. A voltmeter is fully adequate. A simple light weight digital voltage meter is cheap and there are no radio emissions, no $1,000 investment, no monthly service fee, no need to keep it charged and no way to hack it. There is no wait time at all to glance at a meter and if you lose it in the water you won't cry. In addition, when you carry a phone you will never learn self sufficient navigation.
Nice review buddy, short and to the point. That's a fine truck too by the way...
All the best!
Mate and quick straight forward.
Bloody good looking ute!
Thanks mate!!
I've used mine for a few years, great when the battery warning goes off to alert you
Will it work on gogo elete with lithium batterys
No good for Lithium battery as they always say in my case 13.2 volt
It’s should be online so you can monitor from home or what ever you are or app will send notifications
Century BM12V Battery Monitor, arb has them for about $59
But, know that it doesn’t give you a percentage value at rest, unless there is no draw and no active charge. The voltage reading is active with draw and input, so without switching off charging and output an accurate condition is not represented. It’s a good ballpark determinative value but be mindful that you may want to initiate a charge well above the indicated drawdown threshold or risk damage to your bank.
Hope you have better success than I did. I had 2 units die so I gave up on them.
Oh bugger, that's a shame! Were yours the same brand? (Matson)
@@explorebound The first one was a Matson from Supercheap auto. They refunded it .
The second was eBay special.
Tambien funciona por wifi? O solo por bluetooth??
does the unit itself draw battery power?
how about from heee ahh, lol, thank you for the video mate very informative, also thank you for the direct link on AMAZON unfortunately it's Currently unavailable.
sweet, Thanks Mr. Gadget haha
If you had a Dan Murphy's discount card, you could afford a Victron. Hell, I'm only in Oz as a tourist and I have a Dan Murphy's card. By the way, I use a battery monitor that has an LCD readout and it drawing less than 2 mA, it is connected to my battery ALL the time with no switch.
Now here's me thinking I could be in the bath while monitoring my battery voltage Lol 🤣
That's positively shocking, just shocking lol
Cool little gadget!
Thanks for the great video
Bought one and the BT range is only 2-3 metres. Also won’t save any data
Why would you put from anywhere if it is Bluetooth and not wifi ?
First!
I had a look at one of those before, I have two batteries under the hood, on the app can you switch to see on what battery is doing or its only good for the one battery? Cheers
There's a few different monitoring apps you can use with these devices - the app I'm using is called "Battery Monitor BM2" which is a free app but you can only monitor one battery. There's another app called "Multi-Battery Monitor" - it costs $15 but you can monitor up to 4 batteries (although you'll need one of these bluetooth devices for each battery!).
@@explorebound May grab one from super cheap tomorrow. I do have a duel battery monitoring device in the Hilux where it takes one of those blank spots where you would mount a switch at. Would be nice to have one for my phone as I run two fridges while I do my Perth trips. I live out of the bush. haha
Hey mate cheers for the video !!
Does the Matson monitor pick up the percentage from 12.9 volts and start its percentage from there ? As I have a powertech battery monitor that only starts its 100% voltage from the 12.6 volts mark...
Cheers
Hi mate, I replied to your Instagram message but incase anyone else reading this is also wondering, the Matson unit shown here also starts dropping the percentage at 12.6V unfortunately - this isn't too much of a concern for me as I use it for the specific voltage reading rather than the percentage. Cheers!
Try monitoring it from inside your home. Waste of money! I bought three of these BM2 Battery Voltage Monitors so that I can check on my batteries of my stored/parked vehicles as well as my daily driver in my garage and driveway and I wanted to be able to check them while sitting in my home. The range is about 12 feet as I have to be at my front door to get a signal. This is typical of Bluetooth devices where they state 10 meters or 33 feet but in unobstructed view, but not under a hood shrouded in metal. If I need to be that close to a vehicle, I might as well pop the hood and take a DMM meter to the battery.
Work with lithium?
No it doesn't unfortunately, there's not enough variance in lithium voltage for these systems.
Does anyone make one like this that is WiFi?
Smart phones are an addictive waste of time that distract you from life itself as you are looking down at them. A home PC is all anyone needs. While you are gawking at your phone for this unneeded function you are missing life as it passes by. A voltmeter is fully adequate.
A simple light weight digital voltage meter is cheap and there are no radio emissions, no $1,000 investment, no monthly service fee, no need to keep it charged and no way to hack it. There is no wait time at all to glance at a meter and if you lose it in the water you won't cry. In addition, when you carry a phone you will never learn self sufficient navigation.
So if you can't monitor your battery from anywhere,stop lying to people and correct the title of your video mate!