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General Boards => Technical Support => Topic started by: KC Snellgrove on November 03, 2015, 07:12:52 PM
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GOOD DAY fellow BEAVERS'...well we are just about ready to leave on our first retirement journey...so many items on the list to take care of...house sitter, leaf raker, LOL...My question is regarding a tire monitor system for our rig - OLIVIA JEAN! Please let me know what you purchased so I can get the same. Thank you,
KC SNELLGROVE
2005 Monterey "Olivia Jean"
38 footer
2014 Honda CRV
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I purchased the TST flow through TPMS and have used them a couple of years. The plus side is you can inflate without removal, but I think it probably causes the tires to be harder to inflate. The other thing I have noticed is that the tire air temperature measurement simply CAN NOT be accurate as more often than not it is influenced by the sun rather than the air temperature inside the tire since the sensor is NOT inside the tire. The may be an issue on all the external monitors.
Mike Groves
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I have the TST system with a repeater. Six on the coach and 4 sensors on the car. It works great while I am parked. But an hour or so after I hit the road the sensors start dropping off the display on the receiver and beep each time it cycles through. If I reset the receiver the sensors do not reconnect until I stop for a while. Then they reconnect. I wonder if anyone else has this issue. Thanks
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KC, I've thought about tire monitors before, but never bit. There are many brands out there now. I think there was an article this summer or fall in FMC or Motorhome magazine covering most of them. Some have replaceable batteries, some you buy entire tips. $$$ in addition to initial outlay. Obviously from comments here so far, I have to question reliability. I opt to just watch the tires, all 10, at every stop or rest area, at least visually if not with my infrared thermosensor "gun".
Henderson's just installed a Safe-T-Plus stabilizer, like on our old Pace Arrow, and I'll have more control in any blowout, as well as in wind, ruts, etc. New tire's, shocks, and 8 motion control air valves should help.
They found one cracked air line connection last week and replaced it, but overnight the red needle (secondary tank) still goes to 0, so they'll check again. But that was unscheduled and they are busy, so don't know when they'll get to it... air leaks are a bear to track down. At this rate, we may still be here when you arrive. We were supposed to be outa here today, now that the K&N engine air filter arrived.
Joel
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Our coach came with a TPMS from Pressure Pro. I have set it up so that all twelve tires' pressures report to the Silverleaf in rotation in real time. As the tires warm while traveling I can see the pressures rise. I have found two problems with this system - 1) the batteries are not replaceable so when a sender's battery gets weak, then the Silverleaf does not report a pressure on the screen for that tire, and 2) some of the senders either don't want to hookup or are slow (in my opinion) to hookup to the Silverleaf. For the last several legs of this trip the left front tire's sender has not hooked up at all. Also, the toad's senders intermittently hook up to the Silverleaf. At times I get none, or one, or two, or three reporting to the Silverleaf. Rarely I get all four of the toads' tires reporting. I purchased twelve new senders about nine months ago, so the batteries should still be good. It may be the distance the toad's senders have to reach that is the problem. When the coach will be setting parked for several days or longer, I remove the senders from the valve stems... which turns them off and saves the batteries. The senders operate when connected to the valve stems and see tire pressure, I believe.
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I put your question to Robert Henderson here today. He said some companies used to have problematic TPM systems, but most have since worked out the bugs, including the one he recommends, Pressure Pro. That sounds like the same one David has, and yet he still has issues by the sound of things.
I'm just not convinced the technology is there yet. So together with the expense and questionable performance and inconvenient maintenance, I can't be a fan. That's not to say the concept isn't good or that some owners here and there haven't benefited from being warned of a tire inflation problem before it became catastrophic.
Joel
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KC---we bought ours from these people when they were on a "show special" at FMCA rally.http://eezrvproduct.com/TIRE-PRESSURE-and-TEMPERATURE-MONITORING-SYSTEMS-TPMS_c3.htm
These have worked great for 15000 miles so far and the support from Tom at eezrv has been very good.