TST 507 REPEATER REGUIREMENT
Just had a blowout on the 5th. I installed the TST 507 in June of 2011. During the blowout the 507 reported all tire pressures were A OK even when I was standing looking at the tire remains. Mike a...
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I'm always willing to ask questions if I don't know the answer and will give my opinion or take on things when I feel I can help.
My dropped sensor warning is apparently much different than yours. I do not get an alarm, there is just no temp & pressure reading when it comes to that tire----it is blank. We keep our monitor in a place where it is very easy to glance at to be sure all is OK. The passenger also scrolls thru all sensors periodically and I feel we glance at or scroll thru the monitor more often than once an hour so I don't feel our dropped sensors were off for an hour or more. We also check all the gadgets in our trucks dash frequently. Every time we stop we take a walk around looking at things, feeling tire hubs, making sure our awnings and toppers are closed tight,etc. It is just something we have done for all of our 19 years of fulltiming.
To other posters, I can only say that it doesn't take many snide or rude comments to make me not reply but I do not know if that is the reason Mike at TST has not responded. I try to help but if people become ungrateful, snide or belligerent, I usually stop posting and go on to another topic I am interested in and join in the fun discussions. Hugs, Di
My dropped sensor warning is apparently much different than yours. I do not get an alarm, there is just no temp & pressure reading when it comes to that tire----it is blank. We keep our monitor in a place where it is very easy to glance at to be sure all is OK. The passenger also scrolls thru all sensors periodically and I feel we glance at or scroll thru the monitor more often than once an hour so I don't feel our dropped sensors were off for an hour or more. We also check all the gadgets in our trucks dash frequently. Every time we stop we take a walk around looking at things, feeling tire hubs, making sure our awnings and toppers are closed tight,etc. It is just something we have done for all of our 19 years of fulltiming.
To other posters, I can only say that it doesn't take many snide or rude comments to make me not reply but I do not know if that is the reason Mike at TST has not responded. I try to help but if people become ungrateful, snide or belligerent, I usually stop posting and go on to another topic I am interested in and join in the fun discussions. Hugs, Di
GMandJM wrote:
Your experience with the caliper is the example I used to give people for why they need a TPMS. Thank goodness you had one! Nice to hear that it helped.
But the issue we're concerned about is this:Dutch & Di wrote:
It didn't take long to see a dropped sensor here and there.
When you SEE a dropped sensor, it's signal has actually been lost for the past hour.
By the time you hear the alert beep and the reading on the monitor for that sensor goes blank, your monitor has been "frantically searching*" for your sensor's lost signal for an hour.
You don't see or get any alert that the signal has actually been lost for an hour.
You still have a reading on your monitor for the lost sensor. But that tire pressure and temperature shown is from the last reading received...which could be an hour ago.
Alot can happen in an hour. Imagine if your caliper had had an hour more to heat up and you didn't know your sensor's signal was lost because your monitor was still giving you readings from memory.
Until recently, I didn't know that.
When you hear the beep alert and the reading blanks out, it means your monitor has given up trying to locate the sensor's signal "after an hour of trying*".
I'm really glad that your system worked well for you when you needed it, Di. It could have been so much worse! And it's great that you and Dutch have added a repeater/booster. We added one, too.
I wonder how many people out there don't even realize that they need one, ya know?
(*per Mike Benson of TST)
