Deliveries

Australia Post delivered our new 12V air compressor this morning.  Only five days for it to come from the other side of the city! (well this isn’t the UK)

This one has a single head so probably half the speed as the original.  According to the label it draws 45 amps so half the demand of the original.  Taking twice as long to pump up a tyre doesn’t particularly worry me (I’m retired and waiting for god!).

I found it on Ebay for $139.04 but decided to check the suppliers website.  It was $119 on their site which was a saving.  Then I gave Jan the link who went searching for a discount code.  Final price was $109 with free delivery.  That girl knows how to save money!  Oh, I checked all the bolts and screws for tightness before using it to add air to the tyres on the 4WD.

The postman also delivered some button batteries I’d ordered online.  They were $6 each in the major supermarkets, which seemed highway robbery.  Ten for $12 online. 

I need them for the 4WD Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) which I purchased from China last year.  The TPMS has a control unit and display on the dash which is wirelessly linked to a sensor on each tyre valve stem.  The display had stopped showing the data for the front left tyre and I initially thought the unit had failed.  Then I considered the possibility that despite the sensor batteries having a life of 3-5 years they may already have been old.  This morning all four sensor batteries were replaced.

and were then refitted to their respective valve stems.  The dash display came back to life!

Light blue numbers are the tyre pressures in psi and the yellow figures are the tyre air temperature in centigrade.  The control unit has two power sources.  A small solar panel on the top and a usb inlet port on the side.  At under $30 it’s a cheap safety device.