2010 43QGP Allegro Bus
7/27/2011
THIRTY-SECOND -
coach modification,
INSTALLING A MAGNUM
BATTERY MONITOR KIT.
The magnum battery monitor is sold as the
Magnum Energy ME-BMK (Battery Monitor Kit). The kit can be purchased
on line or through Magnum Energy. The lowest price including shipping
found at this time was through an E-bay seller for $ 150.20.
After reading the manual the first order of business was to sort the cables
into two categories, one is the LOAD side and the second is the BATTERY
side. Tiffin installed a copper ground bus bar to join three separate ground
studs into one multi-terminal ground bus. To install the shunt the LOAD and
BATTERY grounds need to be isolated from each other. To isolate the
grounds the copper bus bar linking the three terminals was removed.
The LOAD cables are the ground cables to the chassis frame, the inverter
ground cable they were both secured on an isolated ground stud then a new
