Go Power PowerTrak Touchscreen Battery Monitor Display Kit

The Go Power PowerTrak Display puts your whole power system on one screen. It reads battery voltage, current in and out, how much capacity is left in the bank, state of charge as a clean percentage, and the one number that actually matters when you're parked off-grid: how much time you've got left at your current draw. Touchscreen, black, and built to live on the wall of an RV, van, or off-grid rig.

This is the display half of the Go Power PowerTrak system. It talks to your gear over RV-C, the same network protocol your coach uses to tie components together, so it isn't just watching a single shunt. It pulls the picture from the battery, from your solar charging, and from the inverter, and shows you the whole energy flow in real time. If you're the kind of owner who wants to know exactly what your panels are putting back versus what the fridge and the water pump are pulling out, this is the readout that tells you.

The kit ships with a 25-foot RV-C extension harness and an RV-C terminating resistor. That length matters. The display usually wants to live somewhere you'll actually look at it, by the door, near the galley, at eye level, while the power gear lives in a bay or under a bed on the other end of the rig. Twenty-five feet gives you room to route it cleanly through existing conduit without splicing. The terminating resistor is the part people forget: RV-C is a bus, and a bus needs proper termination at the end of the run or you'll chase intermittent data dropouts. Go Power includes it so you don't have to hunt one down.

It works with any battery chemistry. Flooded, AGM, gel, lithium, it doesn't care. You tell it what you've got and it tracks state of charge accordingly. That's a real advantage on a lithium bank, where resting voltage barely moves across most of the discharge curve and a plain voltmeter will lie to you right up until the lights dim. Counting amp-hours in and out is the honest way to know where a lithium bank really sits, and that's exactly what this display does.

Here's why the readout beats a bare voltmeter. Voltage alone tells you almost nothing under load. Fire up the microwave and the number sags. Shut it off and it springs back. State of charge, calculated from actual current flowing in and out over time, cuts through that noise and gives you a percentage you can trust. Pair that with time-left-at-current-draw and you can make a real decision: run the AC for another hour, or shut it down and save the bank for the furnace tonight. That's the difference between managing your power and hoping it lasts.

Who's it for? Anyone running a Go Power PowerTrak setup who's tired of guessing. Full-time RVers who boondock for days and need to ration power. Van builders who want a clean, modern touchscreen instead of a cluster of separate gauges. Off-grid cabins and trailers running solar into a battery bank with an inverter on top. If you've got the PowerTrak components, this is how you see what they're doing.

Setup is straightforward for anyone comfortable pulling a wire. The display mounts flush to a flat interior surface. Run the 25-foot harness back to your PowerTrak gear, plug the terminating resistor into the open end of the RV-C bus, and power up. There's no separate app to fight with and no phone required to read your system. It's all right there on the glass.

A couple of honest notes. This is a monitoring display for the PowerTrak system, not a standalone shunt meter you bolt to any random battery, so it's happiest when it's part of a Go Power install. And like any touchscreen, it reads best out of direct blasting sun, so pick a mounting spot that isn't baking under a skylight all afternoon. Mount it at eye level, run the harness, terminate the bus, and you've got the full state of your power system a fingertip away.