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Hour meter with alert for maintenance

Hour meter with alert for maintenance

(OP)
Can anyone tell me if someone makes an hour meter that has an alert function built into it?  I want to install these on our machinery so that we do preventive maintanance when needed - not too soon, not too late.

Thanks

RE: Hour meter with alert for maintenance


Not come across a standalone version.  Depending upon this week's corporate policy, disabling of a ‘local only’ annunciator may, in some cases, lead to short-term ‘nag’ fixes.  

If available, a routine written into DCS/SCADA/PLC systems may be appropriate.  For varying degrees of criticality under a slash-and-burn maintenance budget, a pre-alarm followed by later equipment shutdown may be appropriate.
  

RE: Hour meter with alert for maintenance

Back in about 1980, I was looking for this, and the computer guru advised me he could track hours on major equipment, easily.  A month or so later, I found that the hours were going backwards ! hence no alarms.   I then had simple hour meters put on the equipment and tracked the hours.  If in the intervening 23+ years, computers have learned to count up, your problem is presumably solved.
p.s.  It was in a cement plant

RE: Hour meter with alert for maintenance

jraef,
That was a great link.
Have you used these?
Are they reliable?

PUMPDESIGNER

RE: Hour meter with alert for maintenance

Yes, as I said above. It is sometimes a bit tricky to find a stocking distributor, and the Alert function is an option that few of them keep in stock, but the factory has been very accomodating. I used them on crane travel controls where they were subject to heat, vibration and shock. No problems.

"Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi"


RE: Hour meter with alert for maintenance

(OP)
Thanks

That looks like exactly what I am looking for.  I am still amazed at the difficulty in finding such a simple product.

RE: Hour meter with alert for maintenance

Comment: The posted link may be an exclusive manufacturer. Therefore, it is necessary to input correct key words in the browser.
The Alert feature is based on a programmable timer count-down. I just posted the principle not the complete product (hour meter or time totalizer), which appears to be an exclusive product by Redington.

RE: Hour meter with alert for maintenance

Just to let you know, based upon input of this thread, that we are now a distributor of the Reddington Hour Meter products. www.reliabilitydirect.com.

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