Gomez
Gold Member
Um, that was a bit of a joke (Steven Wright-ish)./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
HOUR METER
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GeorgeH
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{ But of course that means I don't understand it registering .2 in 12 minutes of warm up. }
Bird,
1/10 of an hour is 6 minutes so .2 on the hour meter would equal 12 minutes.
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Bird,
1/10 of an hour is 6 minutes so .2 on the hour meter would equal 12 minutes.
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frank_f15
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Bird and Patrick: think u are correct. must be tied to pto rpm. as far as the .2 in 12 min. of warm up, must have caught just as it was ready to turn when i shut it off, then when i started it again it turned.1 at lower rpm then in the rest of the 12 min. it turned another.1. best i can figure. iwould think that they could redesigh the thing to register at any lower rpm. not at high speed and not with just the key being on.
Bird
Rest in Peace
George, I didn't mean that I couldn't calculate two-tenths of an hour./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Just that I couldn't understand how it could register clock time if it's tied to the rpm, but I suspect that frank explained that in the post above./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Bird
Bird
patrickg
Veteran Member
Missing time, hay! Perhaps alien abduction is involved. Weren't there some crop circles up your way?
Patrick
P.S. Or maybe it was someone experimenting on how to optimize cutting a triangular field.
Patrick
P.S. Or maybe it was someone experimenting on how to optimize cutting a triangular field.
woodstock
Gold Member
Actually your right, about 5 years ago about 4 km up the highway from our place. I'll see if I can find the photos we took and scan & post them.
Dam that was spooky,
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
2001 BX2200 All Kubota FEL, Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)
1984 JD 316 after 687 hrs.
Dam that was spooky,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
2001 BX2200 All Kubota FEL, Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)
1984 JD 316 after 687 hrs.
patrickg
Veteran Member
If anyone out there is still partly confused regarding hour/hobbs/revcounters, email me privately and I will finish the job.
Many hour meters, clock type not tach type, are not electronic but electric. Actually electromechanical like the old fashioned dash clocks on cars. They run from a wind up spring like a regular mechanical clock but the spring is wound by a solelnoid sort of thingy with electrical contacts on the spring mechanism. when the spring winds down the points touch and C L I C K/FLASH the spring is wound up again (if you are observent and as a youth spent enough time in parked cars in quiet dark undisturbed locations you hear the ticking and see the flash from the arcing of the contacts. In the case of engine hour meters the spring is pretty small and doesn't run the clock very long after power is removed but they were fairly audible with the engine off. Observed several examples in aircraft, boats, stationary engines (this is my first tractor).
Patrick
Many hour meters, clock type not tach type, are not electronic but electric. Actually electromechanical like the old fashioned dash clocks on cars. They run from a wind up spring like a regular mechanical clock but the spring is wound by a solelnoid sort of thingy with electrical contacts on the spring mechanism. when the spring winds down the points touch and C L I C K/FLASH the spring is wound up again (if you are observent and as a youth spent enough time in parked cars in quiet dark undisturbed locations you hear the ticking and see the flash from the arcing of the contacts. In the case of engine hour meters the spring is pretty small and doesn't run the clock very long after power is removed but they were fairly audible with the engine off. Observed several examples in aircraft, boats, stationary engines (this is my first tractor).
Patrick
patrickg
Veteran Member
You said: Actually your right, about 5 years ago about 4 km up the highway from
our place. I'll see if I can find the photos we took and scan & post them.
Dam that was spooky
Spooky is an understatement when you start recalling what happened during your "missing" time. Better check that tractor hour meter again!
Patrick
our place. I'll see if I can find the photos we took and scan & post them.
Dam that was spooky
Spooky is an understatement when you start recalling what happened during your "missing" time. Better check that tractor hour meter again!
Patrick