Shhh....geez, if anyone finds out I told you this the Marine Dealer Gestapo
is gonna have me shot!

Drop by any Autozone store and go to the battery charger/cables display by
the battery rack. There, you'll find this neat little LCD DVM with some
status LEDs that swivel off the end of a cigarette lighter plug you can
plug in anywhere. The LCD even has a light for night viewing. Reads out
to 1/10th of a volt, which is kinda overkill but sells well. It's about
$10 and requires no mounting other than a 12v Cig jack to plug it into.
There's one running 24/7 in the stepvan on my desk to show the house
battery conditions. It was reading 13.2V when I locked up, tonight....

But, PLEASE, don't tell Boat/US I ruined that $96 sale, ok? How can
anybody sleep at night screwing a fellow boater out of a hundred dollars
for some cheapassed Chinese voltmeter in a plastic case?

Larry
Any auto parts store should have them. I got one in every vehicle.

"Steve" wrote in
:

I want to replace my anolog voltage meter with a LED meter that I can
easily read accurately at a glance.

I see them in the catalogs but don't notice any spec on the amount of
current they draw if I leave it on all or most of the time.

The way my power panel is set up (OEM), you have to push a momentary
switch to activate the anolog meter.. I never considered that this
meter would draw enough current to be of concern.

Presently, for accurate digital volt readings, I use my Fluke
muli-meter but if I leave that hooked up the 9 volt battery will run
down.

Any thoughts??

Steve
s/v Good Intentions