1L243
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Anybody using wireless tire pressure monitors for their trailers? I am thinking it might take several minutes before you know you even got one going flat.
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Chuck&Gail
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Pressure Pro screams at you almost instantly if tire get below setting. Time to alarm is vastly different from just getting a pressure reading.
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Ron3rd
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The TST system will warn immediately if there is a rapid loss of air. Otherwise it reports at a regular interval.
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billb1
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Take a look at this one Hawks Head I used it with our 33 ft Jayco with no amplifier and as soon as a trailer tire started to lose air it went off. Saved me from two blowouts in the 3 years I used it.
Went over to the Truck Camper last year but still have the sensors on the truck.
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Pressure Pro for us.
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OnaQuest
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You can check just how quickly your TPMS will report a loss of air simply be unscrewing one of the sensors from a tire. It should be instantaneous. My PressurePro certainly is.
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The way TPMS works is by the monitor polling the sending units. If there is a sudden loss of pressure that monitor starts sending an alert signal to the monitor immediately. The monitor will stop polling and publish the alert signal.
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lanerd
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1L243 wrote:I am thinking it might take several minutes before you know you even got one going flat.
Can you inform us "why" you think this?
My pressure pro is set for 10 lbs of air loss before the alarm comes on...from the original setting. Typically however, when the tires warm up, they will increase in pressure, so if the monitor says the tire is 10 lbs low, it really means it could be 20 - 25 lbs low. You just gotta know where the original setting is at.
I, on the other hand, typically will check my PP for pressure on all tires about every 15 minutes or so. If I determine one is losing air, I'll definitely pull over at the next convenient stop and check it out.
If the alarm sounds (lights on monitor also blinks) I will I pull over as quickly as I can...convenient or not.
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1L243
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I have never had a flat tire on a trailer myself. I have driven up next to people who had a flat on their trailer and they did not even know it...
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Gale Hawkins
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Ron3rd wrote:The TST system will warn immediately if there is a rapid loss of air. Otherwise it reports at a regular interval.
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Immediately as in RIGHT NOW!
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