VICTRON BATTERY MONITOR

Monitor and Look after your batteries 

Monitoring the status of your battery system is essential. Important information about your battery system can be gathered to enable you to better understand how your battery performs when used.

The Victron BMV-600 and BMV-602 are Victron's newest high precision battery monitors.

The essential function of a battery monitor is to calculate ampere-hours consumed and the state of charge of a battery. Ampere-hours consumed are calculated by integrating the current flowing in or out of the battery.

• Highest resolution: 10mA (0,01A) with 500A shunt.
   
• Lowest current consumption: 1mA.
   
• Easiest to wire: the BMV-600 comes with shunt, 10 meter RJ 12 UTP cable and 2 meter battery cable with fuse. No other components needed.
   
• Easiest to install: separate front bezel for square or round appearance; ring for rear mounting and screws for front mounting.

The BMV-602 has a second voltage measurement input. This input can for example be used to measure the voltage of a starter battery

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BMV-602 Data Link RS232 with software

The Data-Link kit consists out of a communications cable (galvanically isolated), a converter and the Data-Link software. With this kit you can connect:

• Your BMV-602 Battery Monitor to your Global Remote. This connection allows the Global Remote to log data from the BMV-602 Battery Monitor to a website through a GPRS connection. The usage of this website is free of charge.

• Your BMV-602 Battery Monitor to a computer. The free software which is supplied with the Data-Link kit enables you to download and process just about any aspect of your battery and system performance, including charge/discharge curves.

The size of a battery bank is determined by the storage capacity required. Battery capacity is determined by the amount of electrical energy the battery can deliver over a certain period of time and is measured in Ampere hours (Ah) when discharged at a uniform rate over a given period of time.

Read our BATTERY SIZING and BATTERY CAPACITY information.