A Battery Voltage Condition Meter with a Difference (1 Viewer)

[Popeye]

Now this has to be useful for those that keep there Motor-Homes in storage.

You can now check the voltage in the battery on several vehicles inc your Car or Motorcycle even your ride on Mower, watch the video with this Link.

Hope you found it useful.

Griff

 

[RogerThat]

There's some irony in a device designed to monitor battery levels, yet drains the very same battery it's monitoring for you

I can't watch the video from here, but does this only work if your phone is within Bluetooth range?

 

[pappajohn]

I can't watch the video from here, but does this only work if your phone is within Bluetooth range?

Certainly looks that way.
If youre within blutooth range you may as well use a multimeter....which isnt consuming battery power.

 

[Popeye]

Reading through again I believe it does. Not so impressive as I first thought.

The smart app on my new Land Rover does all sorts. Tells you where it is parked how much fuel is aboard / tyre pressures/ miles to next service/ I can fold the 3rd row of seats and start it up for 30 mins max to cool it down or heat it up.

 

[RogerThat]

I can fold the 3rd row of seats .

No way!!!

Seriously?!

I had an old Granada Scorpio which had electrically reclining rear seats and I thought that was amazing back then!

Can you seriously control your seats via an app?!

I'm ever so slightly jealous if so

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[jessthedog]

Certainly looks that way.
If youre within blutooth range you may as well use a multimeter....which isnt consuming battery power.

Thats only if your batteries are not under a seat and accessible

 

[funflair]

Yes only within bluetooth range, I posted about these after I had been to the commercial vehicle show in April.

http://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-battery-monitor-bluetooth.152217/

Martin

 

[funflair]

Certainly looks that way.
If youre within blutooth range you may as well use a multimeter....which isnt consuming battery power.

Not quite as convenient though if you have a few cars all with bonnets down

Martin

 

[pappajohn]

Not quite as convenient though if you have a few cars all with bonnets down

Martin

Very true....but how long to open a bonnet !

 

[pappajohn]

Thats only if your batteries are not under a seat and accessible

There are ways

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[jessthedog]

There are ways

My 2 batteries are under passenger seat, so putting a meter on is virtually impossible, without taking seat off. So anything that alleviates that, is a help

 

[TheBig1]

i fitted one to my last van, but it was pretty useless. I had to be right next to or inside the van to get it to communicate via bluetooth. Then it timed out and the app had to be restarted to monitor the stats. great idea badly implemented, but once they improve and move to either wifi or gsm communication like the latest cars, I will buy another

What I really want is a module that monitors the batteries and emails me a report daily and an alert if the battery drops below a set threshold. not technically difficult on the scale of developing hardware, but nobody seems interested. it will no doubt be the chinese that will be first to market