CHEAP EBAY VOLT/AMMETER, REVIEW, HOW TO WIRE AND USE 

Hello Paul. I would like to show how much this tutorial is appreciated but words are not enough. I have gone through 2 units before finding this video. I purchased the third meter and when i got home, I found that there was only 3 wires!! It was bad enough trying to hook up the 5 wire now I need to find instructions for a 3 wire type. iI found this video and your explanation of the configuration was a lightbulb moment for me!!! I wired it up to my adjustable part of my supply and eureka!! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!! You did not muddy the waters with alot of technical facts and made it very simple to understand for the person that is at just a medium level of experience. thank you

I just want to take this time to thank you for this making this video. I bought this item 5yrs ago but never got around to installing it. There was no detail description on installing this item. Appreciate in making this video.

I bought 3 of these 6 months ago to use with my 400watts of solar panels and 400 ah batteries but they came with no instructions so I painstakingly searched all over the Internet trying to find how to hook these up I found out about the trimetic systems and bought a 50 amp shunt and a 400amp drok shunt. Now I'm new to this and just trying to install solar in my little RV LoL Got tired of searching for answers and bought the Victron 700 comes with all the wires with ends And the instructions yeah Now I find your videos and feel stupid I'm laughing at myself it's ok though. I'm not stupid by any means I was a mechanic for years just never got around to more school electrical and all, You're videos are pretty good thank you.

Love your video, please make more about cheap stuff like this! Notes I know I can buy these for my setup.

Thanks, these meters always confused me, but this hook up is very clear

Great video tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to record, edit and post it. Cheers brother

Thanks for the tutorial, sharing is caring!

very good and informative reviews...keep it up...i have one of it, and I'm using it right now...thanks

You have the best review of them, keep up the good work you have help me out alot. Regards Roger.

Paul...a great and absolutely thorough explanation...thankyou and i am now subscribed.

Hi, first of all very interesting topic you covered, I wanted to integrate this to a pwm fan controller via potentiometer (to adjust the fan speed), a pointer would be very helpful

I really appreciated your plain explanation! Thanks Paul!

Great video very interesting ,,,

Thank you: I am wiring up exactly the same meter and you have made it easy for me. Thanks again, and good luck.

Thank you for the info provided. I am new to electronics and I am trying to find a solution for my DC battery chargers. I end up busting the batteries due to over charging as the chargers currently do not have cut off indicators. I am charging blind at the moment. Is there anyway I can have some solution built to monitor the charge levels of the battery?

Great Video! Question, I am using a single power source for my meter but I want to be able to turn off the meter while leaving the line power on. Do I interrupt the yellow wire for a switch? Thanks

*PLEASE* test it with a current shunt. There's a current shunt for it, but how accurate is that reading and how do you tell the meter what you have plugged in?

Good useful info, thanks!

Hello, how would you go about wiring the ebay red & blue panel meter so that with a 24 volt power source to be able to show the voltage from the 24 volt power source But also show the load from the same 24 volt battery?

Thanks, I have a couple of these laying around and don't have the wiring diagram anymore.

thanks for this video....i finally have it all working as it should.....brilliant...now to calibrate. :)

okay. I'm a relative beginner here. I picked up a few of these from eBay a while ago and your video does a great job of explaining what I'm going to have to do (thank you for including the mounting part). The only issue In left with is that the heavier wires on mine are yellow, blue, and green. Is there a standard for which those would correlate with or will I have to figure that out through trial and error?

Hi there! I just came across your video and noticed that the panelmeter you are demonstrating, is exactly the same as the two i put into my "go" box (a tool box that has been converted to hold 2 seperate sets of 10Ah LiFePO4 batteries, one VHF/UHF and one HF tranciever, 2 cigerettelighter sockets, 6 rechargeable LED hazard/warning lights) I quickly found out that the voltage reading was stable (it didn't drift over time/changes in temperature) but if i calibrated it at 5volts and then turned it up to 12 volts. The panel would read 12,4volts. And if i calibrated at 27volts and then turned it down to 12volts, it would read 11,6volts! Have you seen this on your panel aswell? And have you tried to run 100V through the panel to see if it can actually handle it? Thanks for putting this video out there:-) Sincerely yours Bo Holbo

Hey Ehobby guy, will it be possible for you to add the ebay link to this particular meter?

what is that clear acrylic box in the background ? with the red plugs sticking out the side. I want one of those. Can you help me get one ?

Plea se help mine didn't come with a shunt. What value do I need?

Will one of these work on a 140 amp inverter welder ?

Thanks for the great instructional review. I wonder if this would affect the operation of my Duratrax IntelliPeak NiCd charger as the charger's amp selector pot setting bears no resemblance to actual charge rate (amps)..I presently use the ammeter function in a multimeter to measure charge rate but that is clumsy and awkward. Thinking this would be slick if it will not interfere with peak detection..

Gday mate, any idea if there is a surface mounting block for this little meter please.

Thanks

Hi Paul, do you know if these meters can be used to monitor the amps/volts output of a couple of 100watt solar panels?

Hi Paul I have just watched your review and thought it was very interesting, I am now going to purchase one.I am also new to electronics and I think I followed what you where saying. At the moment I am only using battery power for my projects, (max 12 v ) and mainly led projects. Am I right to assume I can connect ++ and -- - together as the voltage is low and I don't need a separate power supply. Thank you very much... John :)

HI Paul, I have just been using my volt/ammeter and found out that it cannot measure below 1A is there anything I can do with it? Most things that I want to measure are below one amp. Thanks John.... :)

Brilliant!!!!

Can you post the meter you got so many to choose from thanks

So this one doesnt need a shunt?

I am converting an old atx psu to a bench top. The atx says that it's capable of 11 amps. I probably wouldn't be able to use this meter would I? (I have one that I've never used and didn't want to have to buy a new one lol)

my homemade power supply has 2 outputs: Positve 1 to16v and negative -1 to -16. The ground is common to both outputs. I have 2 displays like yours. How can i connect the Amp part of my negative output ???

the meter that you say you bought has three small wires and two large wires the meter you show is the other way round i bought one from ebay as the wires as the former three small two larger can you comment on this please.

I bought a couple of these meters and was surprised how close they were to my bench power supply

I have this same meter, and I want to hook it up to a boost converter that I'm using to charge a battery so that I can measure the output of the converter. I put the small red and black wires on the input to the boost converter which is a 12-19v source (solar panel or battery). I put the big red wire + and black wire - on the output of the boost converter which is 39v. The + on the output also connects with the + on the (Load). The green wire goes to the - on the (Load). The black wire is not connected to the load, just the red + and green -, but the black wire is connected to the - on the boost converter. It reads the voltage of the output of the boost converter as it should, but as soon as I plug in the load, it goes completely blank. The boost converter is working, and powering the load, but the meter goes blank. If I unplug it from the Load , it lights up and shows the voltage of the output. I think I have it wired the way you say: The negative of the load goes into the meter through the green wire, and then goes out of the meter through the black wire to the converter. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I need to measure how many watts my solar panels are outputting. All I see is Volts and amps on these meters.

digital voltmeter for me why just a digit after point

the problem in connecting the meter power to the measured one is that this way you can't measure the full range... below 3v the meter will be unreliable or will shut down...

add a couple pots to it so we can learn how to integrate them...

Please say it 20 times more !!!!!!

Can't see the diagram cause text....also too much talking....no good !!!

Hook up explaination very unclear