Help with Hourmeter

[pcmem]

Powershop,

You are correct. We had these units on our Ariens cira 72. White and red use the white/red scale, red is minutes and white is hours. The yellow uses the inner scale for hours. Your calculations are correct if it has gone around once.

Enjoy,
Michael

 

[Rick Jay]

gator,

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'll bet the red lines on the outer range are reminders for check, clean, grease, tighten or change. )</font>

Yeah, I think you're right, and now that I think about it and understand how this thing works, it's pretty neat. I like the reminder on the maintenance due. Not that it's that difficult, but it was an interesting way to deal with the technology available at the time.

I guess the big down-side is that there's no real indication when it's cycled completely through and started another cycle.

~Rick

 

[frank_f15]

SEEMS TO ME THAT WE HAVE SOME PRETTY SHARP GUYS ON THIS FORUM! but any thing that gets such a wide range of opnions 63 hrs. to 726 hrs. seems like a tough one to read. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif mabey it is just me as i get older, i don't want to have to dechiper an hour meter. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Rick Jay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( but any thing that gets such a wide range of opnions 63 hrs. to 726 hrs. seems like a tough one to read. )</font>

Ahhhh....c'mon Frank. It's no different then all those "vintage" cars whose odometer "only" went to 99,999.9 miles and then reset. You do remember those, don't you? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

As one who grew up during the dawn of the "PC"/computer age, I am always intrigued by pre-computer mechanical systems of all types. Even though this isn't "ancient", it still shows some clever thinking on the part of the the designer(s).

~Rick

 

[frank_f15]

Rick: sad to say i can rember those cars /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif also can remember having to use a hand crank to start the tractors, set the throttle, set the spark, put the crank on and give it a twirl, also get your hands off it quick, some of those things kicked back quite a bit . i think i like it better now. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif