![]() ![]() Finally, the Victron unit has the lowest power consumption of the three options, which matters when the whole point of a battery monitor is to get the most from your battery bank capacity. I didn’t have to crimp any of the wires for the Victron unit. And even with the cabling kit, there is crimping to be done for the Xantrx unit. This was actually fairly significant because effectively the same cabling that Victron included, costs $100 additional for the LinkPro, making the LinkPro almost double the cost. The shunt is even enhanced with a small circuit board to make connections very quick and easy. The Victron was also the lowest cost unit of the three choices and unlike the other two units, Victron includes the cabling necessary to connect the display to the shunt as well as all the battery voltage sense wires. Of course it also ticked all the feature boxes I listed above and then some. Victron BMV-702 Xantrex’s optional $100 LinkPro Cabling Kit ![]() I’ve also highlighted them in the table.įirst, cruisers, boaters, and off-grid home owners seem to like the previous version of the Victron BMV-700 Series, the BMV-600 series, quite a bit and the 700 series is really just an enhanced version with more features. I put together a complete comparison matrix between the 3 top units and I ended up ordering the Victron Energy BMV-702 for a few reasons that I’ll explain. Otherwise it’s nearly identical to the BMV-702 Victron Energy BMV-700 – Only supported 1 bank so the start battery could not be monitored.Xantrex LinkLite – Looked good at first but does not compensate for CEF and also has no stored history.BlueSea VSM-422 – eliminated because I could find no reference to Peukerts or CEF in their documentation.While the BMV-702 compensates for CEF like the others, the CEF value is manually set by the user. ![]()
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