SGT,
Thanks for the help. I will definitely use a circuit as this in the future. But with the complexity of parts and tuning, many of which I would have to purchase I am thinking of another path to success. I have come up with a different plan. With your original suggestion of monitoring both batteries separately I thought that the old LM3914 would be ideal and easy to implement. It may take a few more LED's, but lord know I have plenty of them, as well as all the other necessary parts.
I'd have one bar of LED's for each LM3914, thus can monitor very accurately each battery. I could monitor between 11V and 14V in 0.5V increments with only 7 LED's per battery.
What do you think?
Thanks for the help. I will definitely use a circuit as this in the future. But with the complexity of parts and tuning, many of which I would have to purchase I am thinking of another path to success. I have come up with a different plan. With your original suggestion of monitoring both batteries separately I thought that the old LM3914 would be ideal and easy to implement. It may take a few more LED's, but lord know I have plenty of them, as well as all the other necessary parts.
I'd have one bar of LED's for each LM3914, thus can monitor very accurately each battery. I could monitor between 11V and 14V in 0.5V increments with only 7 LED's per battery.
What do you think?