Victron Energy SmartShunt

You are right but space is tight in mine and I couldn’t be bothered to run the wiring for a display.
 
Ditcha said:
Plenty of info there 👀, mine came yesterday but one of the fuse holders was damaged guy is going to send another one. All I need now is my new van to fit it to.
Keep us posted on how you get along with it please. 👍
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Don’t poke the live wires in the unit and then try and bend them so they fit better. They are push for connectors and don’t take it well.

Oops.
 
Just checking, as it’s not clear from the documentation, can I use the shunt as a replacement of the “Smart Battery Sense” battery voltage / temperature monitor, and that it will work with my Victron Smartsolar 75/15 MPPT solar controller (and join the same network) for monitoring?
 
I haven’t come across Smart Battery Sense before so I have no idea how it is wired but it appears to be for use with solar panels and I would doubt that the shunt replaces it.

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It gives you voltage and has an optional temperature sensor. Network wise, the instructions say it will but probably best check with Victron.
 
ShaKen said:
Just checking, as it’s not clear from the documentation, can I use the shunt as a replacement of the “Smart Battery Sense” battery voltage / temperature monitor, and that it will work with my Victron Smartsolar 75/15 MPPT solar controller (and join the same network) for monitoring?
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Having taken a look at the Battery Smart Sense video it seems to be a battery and voltage sensing device that networks wirelessly with the MPPT, to improve solar battery charging. The BMV-712 Smart does not appear to include battery temperature monitoring and I can see no reference to it providing MPPT control. I would be surprised if Victron launched a new device that makes another of their recent devices redundant, they will want you to buy both. They have different purposes.
 
Pausim said:
I haven’t come across Smart Battery Sense before so I have no idea how it is wired but it appears to be for use with solar panels and I would doubt that the shunt replaces it.
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The Smart Battery Sense is an optional accessory for a Solar charger in that it feeds battery voltage and temperature (of battery) to the Solar charger so that it can more effectively control battery charging.

I’m guessing that as the Smart Shunt captures all that data and more, that it too could send that data over the (bluetooth?) network it creates to Smart Solar controller and thus I could replace the Battery sense with a battery monitor that can give me more insight into battery state, and time to charge etc.
Pausim said:
Having taken a look at the Battery Smart Sense video it seems to be a battery and voltage sensing device that networks wirelessly with the MPPT, to improve solar battery charging. The BMV-712 Smart does not appear to include battery temperature monitoring and I can see no reference to it providing MPPT control. I would be surprised if Victron launched a new device that makes another of their recent devices redundant, they will want you to buy both. They have different purposes.
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Thanks, I’ll give Victron a call to see if they are complimentary or whether I’m missing the point on this.
 
Good idea to contract Victron
ShaKen said:
I’m guessing that as the Smart Shunt captures all that data and more, that it too could send that data over the (bluetooth?) network it creates to Smart Solar controller
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I don’t think it does, they both sense voltage but not battery temperature.
 
The Smart Sense can measure voltage and temperature, but not current (amps).

The BMV and Smart Shunt can both measure voltage, temperature and current. For monitoring the battery state it is important to know the total current going in and out at all times, from whatever source.

If you're just looking at the solar controller, it already knows the current it is producing, and just needs to know the exact voltage and temperature of the battery, so a Smart Sense does that perfectly.

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You can create a ve network, which works over Bluetooth, via the smart shunt and smart mppt solar controller. Very simple to setup via the app and once complete, both products communicate with each other seamlessly.
 
autorouter said:
The BMV and Smart Shunt can both measure voltage, temperature and current.
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I have been through the demo apps for the BMVs and can’t find any reports for battery temperature. I think ShaKen was hoping to get the BMV to control his MPPT instead of the Smart Sense and I don’t think it will.
Happy to be put right if I have got this wrong.
 
Hellski said:
You can create a ve network, which works over Bluetooth, via the smart shunt and smart mppt solar controller. Very simple to setup via the app and once complete, both products communicate with each other seamlessly.
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They will communicate seamlessly but without battery temperature the BMV can not do what the Smart Sense does.
 
Pausim said:
They will communicate seamlessly but without battery temperature the BMV can not do what the Smart Sense does.
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The BMV and SmartShunt have optional battery temperature sensors. The Smart Sense is stuck on the side of the battery and measures temperature by direct contact.
 

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