Battery Meter
We spend about 4 months a year camping in Baja. It is not considered dry camping because they do
provide water in the camp, but no electricity. In this case your battery health becomes very imporant. We use a 100 watts of
solar panels to keep things charged. In general this is enough and works quite well. The exception is when we get a few days
or a week of cloudy weather. In the past we used a meter connected to the 12 volt connections in the stereo cabinet. That
worked okay but was not visable from the fronts seats. We decided to install a permenent meter in a more visable place.
Chosing the right place took some thinking but since we do not have a generator, the logical spot was in the panel that
coveres the hole for the generator control. It is accessable by removing two panels in the upper portion of the bathroom.
There are two plastic clips that can be turned to remove the panel. I cut a hoole in it to match the size of the meter.
Here is a picture showing the first panel removed.
Now lets remove the second panel. The meter is mounted in the removable panel in this picture. It shows up at the
bottom of the picture.
The red and black wire have to be connect to the indicator panel. The panel is removed from the front. The
plastic panel pops out. Here is a picture.
Next the 4 screws are removed.
Now that the panel is out we need to connect the red and black wire from the meter to the panel. The power
connections are at one end of the connector. They are marked on the picture. The +12 is connected to the orange wire.
Put everything back together and it looks like this.
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