Stinger Voltage Display Trick?

[Andrizzle 10+ year member]

Okay... this is really pissing me off...

I have the little blue stinger voltage meter.... I have it reading @ the amp and it is inaccurate as crap.

wI don't understand it... I measure witht he DMM and it is a strong 14.43 volts- Where the Stinger display reads...

So here's the situation... The Stinger thing comes with a little knob inside of it that you can turn to adjust the voltage reading to accuracy. BUT I have the thing maxed out and it is reading my 14.4 volts as 13.9 - 14.0 if im lucky. This is really irritating me and I'm OCD.

I know i can just add .4 to every reading it gives me, but I would much rather have it to where it reads correctly like its suppost to.

So does anyone know a way I can get it to read accurately? Is there a way to just get it to read like a ****ing DMM... I mean sh!t how hard can it be.

If there is noway around this, I strongly suggest to not buy this stupid display for 28 bucks like I did.... What a waste for something that doesn't work right

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[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

Throw it in the trash!

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

humm all the one's i have ever used read the voltage perfectly after i adjust them...

you sure ur's isnt bad out of the box???

i have a dc power supply here at work with a voltage out put on it. so before i install anything like that i test it first....

 

[TIeclipseMOJO 10+ year member]

mine reads it perfectly. it just has a 3 wire hook up. ones ground, ones the power it reads, the other should be a turn on. when hooked up backwords it was trying to read the voltage through the remote turn on wire which was a little low

 

[dbman150 5,000+ posts]

mine works great all the wall to 16 volts

 

[05gliguy 10+ year member]

Mine works fine

 

[Andrizzle 10+ year member]

i must ****...

Im going to try and ground the little thing all the way @ the batt.... sigh

 

[krisfnbz 10+ year member]

I have one distribution block that is 1/0 in and 2 4 awg out..... and I dont think it has a ground, just power inputs from my battery....its on the main 1/0 in my car.

It always reads 14.0-14.2 or so maybe high 13's when im crankin it.

I have a 1/0 fuse holder thats digital and it reads as high as 14.7 sometimes... usually around 14.4 though.

 

[knukonceptz 10+ year member]

Have you compared with another DMM? Maybe your battery is weak in the DMM causing a bad reading.....If two meters dont read the same, I'd get another to see which is right, If all three are different......walk away and never speak of this again.........

 

[xtremebassjunky 10+ year member]

Lol

 

[lil_italy773 10+ year member]

i was wanting to get one of these metters cool lookin display. hope mine isnt that much of a hassle

 

[xtremebassjunky 10+ year member]

i have a 1/2 din slot that tsunami volt meters fit perfectly in.. those look like the best lil volt meters that I have seen..

 

[Andrizzle 10+ year member]

I think I got it figured out. I had my wiring messed up or something.

I beleive it was reading from my remote voltage.