New: the ARCO Zeus high energy alternator regulator
ARCO’s Zeus is the only high-energy alternator regulator to feature Bluetooth and a native app (on IOS and Android) allowing for easy installation and configuration. With its intuitive interface, you have access to information on your system that you never had before. This information allows you to regulate your system and optimize your battery charge and alternator output resulting in a safer experience while protecting your energy system investment.
Zeus is the only alternator regulator that measures and reacts to inputs from the Battery current and temperature and the Alternator current and temperature.
Through the ARCO Zeus application, you are in good hands as your data is automatically logged and can be shared with your technician to troubleshoot your system when remote. You can even import your remote technician’s configurations.
Zeus optimizes battery charges for 12-48 volt systems. Whether you are using Lithium (LiFePo4) batteries to lead-acid Deep Cycle batteries, Zeus has you covered with its pre-set battery libraries and configurable menus to optimize your charging profiles. Zeus manages a complex set of inputs by giving you easy to understand options.
Zeus also takes into consideration the power of your engine and allows you to configure the alternator’s power take off from the engine by managing the field, or duty. An advanced feature of Zeus is that it can turn your engine into a dedicated generator with a press of the button, whereby it focuses the alternator’s performance to the creation of energy in replenishing your battery bank quickly.
Consistent with Zeus’s ease of use, Zeus is the only alternator regulator on the market that comes with alternator/battery harnesses and 2 thermistor harnesses, without an additional charge, saving users money and time from sourcing harnesses.
The ARCO Zeus Regulator costs $796.
Features:
- Secure Bluetooth connection for easy installation, configuration, and updates
- Harnesses, Thermistors and NMEA 2000 kit included – Zeus comes with both a battery wiring harness and alternator wiring harness as well as 2 thermistors and the NMEA 2000 kit ($159 in savings)
- Native ARCO Zeus application on mobile/tablet for easy to use and intuitive dashboard, system information, and a myriad of pre-set and customizable regulator settings. (Compatible with iOS and Android.)
- State of Charge – Zeus is the first to the market regulator with built in State of Charge which eliminates the need for an additional state of charge monitor
- Generator Mode – Is a first to market advanced feature of ARCO’s Zeus is that it can turn your engine into a dedicated generator with a press of the button, whereby it focuses the alternator’s performance to the creation of energy in replenishing your battery bank quickly. This sustainability feature enables you to use less fuel to drive energy to your alternator.
- Pre-set battery libraries – Whether you are using Lithium (LiFePo4) batteries to lead-acid Deep Cycle batteries, ARCO Zeus has you covered with its growing pre-set battery libraries.
- Data logging and sharing – Log your alternator’s performance and settings wirelessly and automatically. Communicate setting files and performance logs with a push of a button to technical support as well as import and automatically configure a technician’s recommendations remotely.
- CAN bus and NMEA 2000-integrated networks enable you to transmit relevant data to RV navigation systems, multifunction displays (MFDs), or marine chart plotters
- Compatible with all voltage systems – 12-48 volt compatible
Learn more about Zeus’ solutions at our Learning Center for High Energy.
Related Posts:
Panbo publishes select press releases as a service to readers and the marine electronics industry. The release contents do not reflect the opinion of the editors and are not fact checked by the editors
This is interesting, would be cool to see how this compares to the Wakespeed stuff beyond marketing literature. WS seems to integrate well with all the Victron stuff I already have, it’s not clear if this would be as good or better in that setup… The bluetooth setup sounds a lot better than bringing the laptop into the engine room or dip switches though..
Nice to see more people entering the alternator regulator game. Also interesting to see it being done by ARCO which has existed in the marine alternator and starter spaces forever but seemed to not be to concerned with high-ouput alternators during that time.
I’m looking forward to a review and test of the Zeus regulator and the new Arco 225 amp small frame marine alternator. On paper (and with some of Rod C’s input on both) it looks like a winning combo. When Integrated with a DVCC system like Victron Energy’s, we are approaching a comprehensive integrated solution to on board energy production and management. I know you’ve got a lot on your plate, but hoping that this might be possible at some point in the near future.