Hello All,
A quick bit of background to my question -
I'm just finalising an installation of a split charge system on a narrow boat comprising of a couple of AGM battery banks (start & auxiliary).
I have one 'Voltage Sense' wire from a charging regulator which is designed to go directly to the +ve of the battery being charged, and will monitor to 2 decimal places (100ths)
Now my question:-
I would like to monitor both batteries by inserting a very low contact resistance DPST relay and splitting the connection. So, what would be the ideal way to terminate the connection so that I loose the minimum due to volt drop?
E.g. with the wire from the manufacture I already have two 'connections', one for the wire to the crimp (not soldered) and one for the crimp to the spade connector. So if I go the crimp route I will have another two as above to the relay, 1 through the relay contacts, another two coming out and finally another two to the battery terminal. - A total of nine locations of possible volt drop (per battery not doubled up because there are two batteries)
Or
Nastily, I could (silver) solder directly to the pins of a PCB relay and have just 7 if
I really welcome you thoughts/input
Thanks
Matt
A quick bit of background to my question -
I'm just finalising an installation of a split charge system on a narrow boat comprising of a couple of AGM battery banks (start & auxiliary).
I have one 'Voltage Sense' wire from a charging regulator which is designed to go directly to the +ve of the battery being charged, and will monitor to 2 decimal places (100ths)
Now my question:-
I would like to monitor both batteries by inserting a very low contact resistance DPST relay and splitting the connection. So, what would be the ideal way to terminate the connection so that I loose the minimum due to volt drop?
E.g. with the wire from the manufacture I already have two 'connections', one for the wire to the crimp (not soldered) and one for the crimp to the spade connector. So if I go the crimp route I will have another two as above to the relay, 1 through the relay contacts, another two coming out and finally another two to the battery terminal. - A total of nine locations of possible volt drop (per battery not doubled up because there are two batteries)
Or
Nastily, I could (silver) solder directly to the pins of a PCB relay and have just 7 if
I really welcome you thoughts/input
Thanks
Matt