| Re: [GMCnet] Wheel Bearing Temp Sensors [message #66918] |
Tue, 08 December 2009 00:42  |
rallymaster
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Registered: February 2004
Location: North Plains, ORYGUN
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Didn't Arch or somebody already do that for his coach?
A small LCD thermometer with 2 remotes to check front wheel bearing
temperatures.
Could be positioned to read tire temps.
three of them would take care of all 6 tires for about....heck, I forgot
what they cost.
Or 6 thermocouples and a switching circuit to rotate through them, and an
alarm when one went over temp.
ronc
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:40:13 -0800 (PST) Gary Casey <casey.gary@yahoo.com>
writes:
> Being in the sensor business, I proposed such a thing several years
> ago. The idea is that it is really temperature that kills the tire
> - low pressure just happens to be the cause of the high temperature.
> Those in the "biz" just weren't interested. One thing they were
> after is a measurement that would warn of a problem before you took
> to the road. Temperature would be a very nice thing to have BESIDES
> pressure, though. I wonder....
> Gary
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> ________________________________
> From: Jim White <jameswwhite@cyberwind.net>
> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> Sent: Mon, December 7, 2009 4:46:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Wheel Bearing Temp Sensors
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> Dudes-
> This is the first issue I've seen on GMCnet that did not warrant
> generous and creative response.
> Is it just too far out or too great of a challenge?
> Jim "Doc" White
> *************************
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> Jim White wrote:
> > Neil-
> > When you bought the Smart Tire System several years ago, did you
> shop around for alternatives?
> > I have to question why these systems are so expensive. A question
> for all readers is....Since we can purchase a infra-red thermometer
> for a few bucks, so why can't KenH, KenB, SFerguson, LHarrison or
> PowerJohn just rig up six with some low voltage wire, six lights and
> a buzzer and for about $ 100?
> > Why are they so expensive?
> > Jim "Doc" White
> > Wintergreen, VA
> > 75 GMC Stretch (with cool bearings for now)
> >
> > ***************
> > Niel Martin wrote-
> > They worked great for about two years. I understand that they I
> need to go to Camping World and have several of the sensors reset.
> I have yet to do that.
> >
> > The temp sensor was a lifesaver. 10 miles from home at the end of
> a trip cross-country and back, the high temp alert went off for the
> right rear forward tire. I was tring to avoid a rest stop so close
> to home, but pulled over with the alert and went to the head,
> telling my wife to check out the tire outside. Midway through my
> business she came screaming back that it was on fire. A quick shot
> of the fire extinguisher put it out, and later diagnosis was a bad
> bearing that was just about to traumaticly let go.
> >
> > So I like the device and would recommed it.
> >
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| Re: [GMCnet] Wheel Bearing Temp Sensors [message #66951 is a reply to message #66918] |
Tue, 08 December 2009 12:19  |
Ken Burton
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| rallymaster wrote on Tue, 08 December 2009 00:42 |
Didn't Arch or somebody already do that for his coach?
A small LCD thermometer with 2 remotes to check front wheel bearing
temperatures.
Could be positioned to read tire temps.
three of them would take care of all 6 tires for about....heck, I forgot
what they cost.
Or 6 thermocouples and a switching circuit to rotate through them, and an
alarm when one went over temp.
ronc
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That was Lawrence Gaskins who did that. Lawrence is still around even though he traded in his GMC for a beautiful french fry oil burning pusher. I last saw him at the GMC Eastern States rally in Elkhart last fall.
"If you go to a rally and it smells like french fries you know Lawrence is parked somewhere nearby."
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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