PressurePro Questions

RCMAN46 wrote:
Very easy to prove that it will take close to one hour to notify you of loss of signal.

Next time you drop your trailer leave the system active then drive your truck a couple miles from the trailer. You will have what appears to be good pressures from the trailer for close to one hour.

Now if you believe the sensors can transmit data for two miles then I see no reason to continue this conversation.

I first tried the flow through but when I saw how far out they stck I was afraid of damaging them if I were to rub a curb so I went with the original sensors.

I am still using the TST system but I monitor my pressures regularly gives me something to do on a long boring drive. If I do not see pressures changing then I can only assume a sensor has lost communication.

I have driven away from trailer with the monitor on, and the alarm goes off very shortly. Definitely doesn't take an hour. It depends on the distance, but only a few minutes after I'm out of range. Sounds like your system is really out of whack. Having a system that took an hour to realize something was wrong is a pretty useless system!

I do understand what's being stated. I just don't understand how you know it's an hour before it updates.

If I add air pressure it shows up immediately, not an hour later. If I take my sensor off the tire it beeps immediately in the cab, on the monitor. I have taken a sensor off and down to the garage, out of range, and the monitor is beeping when I came back up to the truck, about 10 minutes later. All of this would seem to negate the claim that it takes an hour to realize a sensor is missing, or that a reading is out of standard.

fj12ryder wrote:

RCMAN46 wrote:

cruz-in wrote:

RCMAN46 wrote:
I recently went with the TST system. If I were to be able to do it over I would go back to the Pressure Pro which served me well for over 5 years.

I changed to save a couple dollars.

Why would you go back to PP? Was there something you did not like about the TST system?

The pressure Pro system has more range from sensor to receiver. At least on my setup it seams to have more range.

If the receiver does not get a signal from a sensor the STS system will not notify you of the lost signal until it has not received a signal continuously for about 1 hour. The Pressure Pro will notify in about 15 minutes.

So if the TST were only able to get one update each hour you would not know there was a problem. That is most of the time there is no data communication thus a tire could go flat and you may not know it. Whereas the Pressure Pro would be one each 15 minutes. I would prefer both would give notice if there was lets say 3 or 4 continuous update failures.

Maybe someone will market a better system someday.


As for customer service I found it very good for both companys and would rate them the same.

Distance isn't an issue for my TST 507 with a long bed dually and a 40' triple axle toyhauler. I have not needed a repeater and I get consistent readings.

It updates quickly so I don't believe you're correct with thinking it only updates once an hour or so. I've seen the tires change temperatures from one cycle to another, which happens as it goes through the different tire positions.

I think you're mistaken about the TST system needing an hour to tell you if a tire sensor drops out. I don't know where you came up with that since there is no way of knowing the sensor has dropped out until it beeps. So how would you know it was hour before it missed the sensor?

I'm very happy so far with my TST system. I only have one thing I would change: I would give the flow-through sensors a pass. They take way too long to allow a decent amount of pressure change.

Very easy to prove that it will take close to one hour to notify you of loss of signal.

Next time you drop your trailer leave the system active then drive your truck a couple miles from the trailer. You will have what appears to be good pressures from the trailer for close to one hour.

Now if you believe the sensors can transmit data for two miles then I see no reason to continue this conversation.

I first tried the flow through but when I saw how far out they stck I was afraid of damaging them if I were to rub a curb so I went with the original sensors.

I am still using the TST system but I monitor my pressures regularly gives me something to do on a long boring drive. If I do not see pressures changing then I can only assume a sensor has lost communication.

You aren't understanding what is being said. If the TST monitor does not get a signal it will display the last reading received for about an hour before alarming the loss of signal. I agree that this is way to log of time.

RCMAN46 wrote:

cruz-in wrote:

RCMAN46 wrote:
I recently went with the TST system. If I were to be able to do it over I would go back to the Pressure Pro which served me well for over 5 years.

I changed to save a couple dollars.

Why would you go back to PP? Was there something you did not like about the TST system?

The pressure Pro system has more range from sensor to receiver. At least on my setup it seams to have more range.

If the receiver does not get a signal from a sensor the STS system will not notify you of the lost signal until it has not received a signal continuously for about 1 hour. The Pressure Pro will notify in about 15 minutes.

So if the TST were only able to get one update each hour you would not know there was a problem. That is most of the time there is no data communication thus a tire could go flat and you may not know it. Whereas the Pressure Pro would be one each 15 minutes. I would prefer both would give notice if there was lets say 3 or 4 continuous update failures.

Maybe someone will market a better system someday.


As for customer service I found it very good for both companys and would rate them the same.

Distance isn't an issue for my TST 507 with a long bed dually and a 40' triple axle toyhauler. I have not needed a repeater and I get consistent readings.

It updates quickly so I don't believe you're correct with thinking it only updates once an hour or so. I've seen the tires change temperatures from one cycle to another, which happens as it goes through the different tire positions.

I think you're mistaken about the TST system needing an hour to tell you if a tire sensor drops out. I don't know where you came up with that since there is no way of knowing the sensor has dropped out until it beeps. So how would you know it was hour before it missed the sensor?

I'm very happy so far with my TST system. I only have one thing I would change: I would give the flow-through sensors a pass. They take way too long to allow a decent amount of pressure change.

kohai wrote:

Ivylog wrote:
$42 to exchange a 50 cent battery that is soldered in. I'm in the process of sawing the tops off, replacing the dead battery and silcone the top back on.

Which brand are you referring to in this post?

PP

Hmmm....my TST 507 system with the flow-through sensors and trailer repeater will typically show small cycle-to-cycle variations of both temperature and pressure on truck and trailer tires at Interstate speeds with everything stabilized at running temperature. That certainly is not consistent with updates every hour or 15 minutes. I have no complaints with the TST 507 system we are using.

Rusty

cruz-in wrote:

RCMAN46 wrote:
I recently went with the TST system. If I were to be able to do it over I would go back to the Pressure Pro which served me well for over 5 years.

I changed to save a couple dollars.

Why would you go back to PP? Was there something you did not like about the TST system?

The pressure Pro system has more range from sensor to receiver. At least on my setup it seams to have more range.

If the receiver does not get a signal from a sensor the STS system will not notify you of the lost signal until it has not received a signal continuously for about 1 hour. The Pressure Pro will notify in about 15 minutes.

So if the TST were only able to get one update each hour you would not know there was a problem. That is most of the time there is no data communication thus a tire could go flat and you may not know it. Whereas the Pressure Pro would be one each 15 minutes. I would prefer both would give notice if there was lets say 3 or 4 continuous update failures.

Maybe someone will market a better system someday.


As for customer service I found it very good for both companys and would rate them the same.

Ivylog wrote:
$42 to exchange a 50 cent battery that is soldered in. I'm in the process of sawing the tops off, replacing the dead battery and silcone the top back on.

Which brand are you referring to in this post?

RCMAN46 wrote:
I recently went with the TST system. If I were to be able to do it over I would go back to the Pressure Pro which served me well for over 5 years.

I changed to save a couple dollars.

Why would you go back to PP? Was there something you did not like about the TST system?