Well one really, how do you use it and how much does the bulk tipper body have to be up for it to work? I did try to ask my boss but he’s not a tipper driver so doesn’t really have much of a idea himself!!
The body needs to be up about 1 ft so you can see day light under body to back and clear of chassis
Load front then tip up load back
Befor loading tip up see if its on zero if not I think there is a Zero button ring pm for more details best of look
terratology:
Well one really, how do you use it and how much does the bulk tipper body have to be up for it to work? I did try to ask my boss but he’s not a tipper driver so doesn’t really have much of a idea himself!!
Hi. if you ring this number 01274 771177 and ask for the workshop these guys will explain everything about and how to set the weigher up.I have done this a couple of tiomes in the past,nothing seems to be to much bother for them,good as gold. Best of luck Todd
terratology:
Well one really, how do you use it and how much does the bulk tipper body have to be up for it to work? I did try to ask my boss but he’s not a tipper driver so doesn’t really have much of a idea himself!!
Nice to see your employer is taking “training” so seriously
terratology:
PM 1200 weigher questionsWell one really, how do you use it and how much does the bulk tipper body have to be up for it to work?
That’s two questions.
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Look at the display with your eyes. If it says “28,000kg” then you’ve got roughly 28,000kg of material in the back. If it says “0kg”, then you’re empty (assuming it’s calibrated correctly).
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A little bit. Enough to get some pressure in the hydraulics but not enough for the loading shovel driver not to be able to load you.
On a lot of these systems you have to turn the side lamps on for them to work.
Dan Punchard:
On a lot of these systems you have to turn the side lamps on for them to work.
Say what?
Contraflow:
Dan Punchard:
On a lot of these systems you have to turn the side lamps on for them to work.Say what?
Yes that’s what you do.
Dan Punchard:
Yes that’s what you do.
That’s a bold statement.
I’ve never once switched my side lights on in order to operate my weigher. Each to their own though, I suppose.
It could be that lazy fitters energise them via the side lamps to save time wiring them properly to a separate power supply.
The sidelight theory isn’t so daft. I’ve got the pm1300 that’s integral with the reversing camera and I’ve been advised to make sure camera is off before weighing. Mine says 2300kg when empty so I just load it to just under 22t and my weights are good. It is annoying that you need a security code to recalibrate it. I used to do it myself with the old models. To do this,take your known payload and enter it once selecting “span” on setup screen.
Dan Punchard:
It could be that lazy fitters energise them via the side lamps to save time wiring them properly to a separate power supply.
But all fitters are lazy… yet my weigher has nothing to do with my side lights?
My weigher is switched on and operational until I switch it off at the end if the day.
It comes in useful sometimes, because even when the body is down, it still displays either a negative weight (when empty) or a few hundred kilograms (when loaded) and I can judge when the trailer wheels are about to lift off the ground (when traversing Woodhead on the limiter, for example) by the fluctuations in the weight displayed.
Contraflow:
Dan Punchard:
Yes that’s what you do.That’s a bold statement.
I’ve never once switched my side lights on in order to operate my weigher. Each to their own though, I suppose.
Our Erf /wilcox has to have the side lamps ,my mates weightlifter does and seen 2 cf,s that do to name a few,my statement is not bold as you put it,I was just trying to help the op out with what I know, sounds like you don’t have much experience to me.
Dan Punchard:
…sounds like you don’t have much experience to me.
You’re absolutely correct; I have no experience whatsoever of weighers that only work with the side lights on.
Why is it that when you “zero” the weigher, more often that not it’ll say “can’t zero, body not empty” when the body is empty?
Contraflow:
Dan Punchard:
…sounds like you don’t have much experience to me.You’re absolutely correct; I have no experience whatsoever of weighers that only work with the side lights on.
Mine only works with the side lights on and most folks I know are the same !!!
the only ones I’ve seen that work without side lights on are 6/8 wheelers and bulk blowing trailers where it’s wired up to the battery source for the donkey engine
I wonder if they use the side lamp feed because its the same pin in every suzie,so no matter who pulls what trailer the weigher will work,where as some auxiliary electric suzie s may not be wired up the same or even at all?which would explain why rigid s don’t use the side lamp feed.
Cool cheers for all the replies, I think I may have mastered it! It seems to be a bit out as it needs to be reading 29000kg instead of 28404kg for me to be about right with my weight. Oh and my sidelights have to be on to!
i’ve only used ones that you need to turn the side lights on as well!
contraflow - the ones that go off hydraulic pressure require a specific height, and will only be accurate if the trailer is loaded uniformly, was calibrated with a uniform load and was on level ground both times. plus i’ve never seen them on a artic bulker, only a farm tractor trailer.
when you raise the trailer so that all the pads are off the chassis, so all the weight is on the weigh cells, as the load goes in, the body will flex and the rear pads may sit back down on the chassis, as i found out the first time i loaded a trailer
so always recheck the body is off the chassis.