And this is a beauty! People who know me will tell you how I love a good gadget that can do something useful.. This is one of those.
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The Kit with the two sensors, the rubber base rings and the gauge.I bumped into Duncan from Apollo as I left the NZMCA Motorhome show and he was telling me about this new Gas remote fuel gauge. It is called a Mopeka.
The sensors all connected to the phone appIt works by having two sealed sensors which are each magnetically attached to the bottom of your Gas bottles that send a signal to a remote LED gauge telling you how much Gas you have left in your bottles.
My new Gas bottles ready for the sensors
A sensor on the bottom of a bottle
The Gauge for inside somewhereIt also has a phone app and it will work with that too but you have to make sure that you tell it your bottle size and that you’re in NZ. It defaults to a weird bottle size in the US 🙂
All ready to be put in the Gas locker. Note the rubber ring on the base.I thought I’d give one a run and see how they went. The whole process from start to finish took me about ten minutes and once I’d set it up for two 9kg bottles in NZ, it looked like the perfect solution to prevent middle of the night alarms from the fridge, when a bottle has run out, usually in the rain 🙂
Ready to goRafe is in storage at the moment until his new concrete pad has settled so isn’t parked at the optimum angle. I think once it is level, this device will have half a chance but given that the bottles are both swappa bottles that only ever have about 70% gas in them anyway, I’d say its pretty accurate.
Not really a good test for it!A really clever device retailing about $300 from Apollo Entertainment.
With the phone app