Hobbs hour meter replacement?
Hi. I finally got around to pulling the range cover so I could pull the old Hobbs hour meter that quit working some time ago. I can't quite make out the part number or the volts on the...
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maillemaker wrote:
I went with this digital model:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CSOIBTM
Says 4.5 - 60 volts.
And a "CMOS EEPROM with over 25 years service lifetime".
Assuming the battery holds out, it should last a while. I guess the bad news is when it does go out you have no idea how many hours you had when it did go out.
But the RV is 28 years old now - I don't think it will be around in another 25. :)
Steve
EEPROM does not require a battery to hold data; you can think of it as flash memory if that helps. (Flash is actually a subset of EEPROM, designed to have the ability to be erased in relatively large chunks.) My guess is it has no battery in it, assuming the marketing speak coincides with the engineering speak (which is always a dicey proposition).
