![]() Once I got over my rage and irritation at the incredibly cryptic, vague, sparse, and often-misleading setup instructions for the battery monitor gizmo and the software app, and once I got the hang of the peculiarities of the device and its app and its cryptic and odd on-screen messages, my setup efforts were 100% successful, and there have never been any problems since that time. Looking back on the bizarre and painful setup experience, I would say that the worst part of the process was the cryptic, vague and confusing instructions, and then there seemed to be an awfully big problem initially in setting up a password (not the WiFi router password, but the device password) for the device, due to some very odd quirks in the device configuration portion of the app.īTW, I downloaded the Android version of the Battery Tender Wireless Monitor app I own two cheap Samsung smartphones, each of which run a generic version of Android 4.0, and yes, I downloaded from the Google Android Apps store the latest version of the app, the one that had been updated in early June 2017. Well, it took me about four non-stop hours of curses and growls, and one cranky website chat (I was the cranky one) on the Battery Tender website with a customer service person, followed by one phone call on their toll-free line to Tech Support at Battery Tender (made just minutes before all of the company's employees were to be evacuated from the building and from their city in Florida (USA), because Hurricane Irma was bearing down on their region), where I received some good assistance from Luke Gordon (who stayedin touch with me over the next couple of days via email to ensure that everything had worked out okay, and to answer some very techie-type questions that I had about the device), and a fair amount of blood, sweat and tears before I was able to manage to get the first device set up and working, and my subsequent setup of the two other devices were a piece of cake, because I was able to install them using the odd and arcane knowledge that I had gained during the setup of the first such gizmo. Looking back on my decision to purchase these gizmos based solely upon my gut sense, and despite all of the 1-star reviews, well, I can say that it all ultimately turned out fine, as you will see from my tale below: I purchased three of the gizmos because I wished to use them for each of three different dedicated "views" in monitoring the massive 60+ kW AGM battery bank (divided by isolators into 5 separate battery sub-banks or strings) that is part of my off-grid solar-assisted battery backup emergency AC power system (I live out in the mountains, and experience frequent and sometimes-lengthy utility AC power outages, and I use this off-grid battery backup system as a massive AC uninterruptitble power supply (aka UPS) to keep all important AC-powered systems in my home operational during power blackouts for up to 20 days at a time.). I bought three of these Battery Tender wireless battery monitor gizmos a few days days ago, despite the plethora of 1-star reviews for the device and the smartphone app on sites across the web, including the Google Android Apps Store, and I did so because I somehow knew on an inner level that they would work fine for me, although I admittedly anticipated that I would hit some snags and slowdowns during the initial setup phase of each device. ![]() Sealed Lead Acid UPS Battery BackUp Batteries.Sealed Lead Acid Mobility Scooter Batteries.Sealed Lead Acid Lithium Rechargeable Batteries.Sealed Lead Acid Emergency Lighting Batteries.Sealed Lead Acid Deep Cycle Marine Batteries.Sealed Lead Acid APC RBC Replacement Batteries.Chargers Storage & Maintenance Chargers.Alkaline & Lithium See All Rechargeable.Alkaline & Lithium See All Alkaline & Lithium. ![]() Alkaline & Lithium Watch Batteries (Button & Coin Cell).Alkaline & Lithium Hearing Aid Batteries.All Categories Adapters, Harnesses, & Clamps.
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