Thursday, Aug 19, 2010 at 19:48
I also got rid of the set-up I had a few years ago. It was called a Jette6 and whilst the concept was great, I'm sorry to say that my 55 year old brain just couldn't work out a quick/easy way to alter the settings after the pressures were altered for a change of terrain.
I will consider buying another set when a manufacturer comes up with a user-friendly system.
My idea of user friendly would see me doing the following:
1). Alter the rim by drilling another hole and fitting a second, short, rigid valve stem, close to the inner area of the rim so that the external sensor/sender would be safe AND not have to be removed when
tyre pressures needed to be altered.
2). I would be able to fit the 6 sensors to my 4x4 and trailer, hop in the cab and press/hold a button (or a pair of buttons....sort of like a computer where you need to hold down Ctrl + Alt + Delete to perform some functions). Doing this would make the "brains" of the unit "seek-out" the current
pressure and temperature of each
tyre in turn.
3). Once I have seen all 4 (or 6) tyres register on the "brains" box, I could release the button/s and the system would be ready to go.
4). When I stop and alter my pressures, I simply repeat step 2 and the sensors would transmit their new "base data" to the brains box again.
For sure the sensors would need to have a stronger signal strength, as I was constantly losing the signal on my Jette system. Also, the small battery inside each sensor would need to be more easily accessible for replacement. The ones I had were a sealed unit and had to be "broken" open, rendering them difficult to re-use.
I will wait until such a system is put on the market.
Roachie
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