Ryan090:
Does a digital tacho tell you how many hours you have been driving since start of the shift then?
Never used a tacho before I ain’t got a clue how to use one, ill just figure it out Monday I guess lol
Yes it does, assuming you havent reset the counter
Dont ask me about the Stoneridge or Actia
But on (the most common) Siemens
Assuming your stationary:
Its just one simple key press on the [down arrow] to display whats accumilated,
But beware:
any accumilation of Beaks or POA’s with a duration equal or greater than 15minutes each,
totaling 45minutes or more, will reset this counter to ZERO
On some with OLD firmware,
any accumilation of periods of POA/Break (no matter what there duration)
will RESET the counter, when there total equals 45minutes or greater,
Also on the Siemens Head:
You can also display your total accumilated driving time
(since last daily or weekly rest,i.e when the shift began)
by srolling down the menu’s until you find " Display Driver "
This counter is NOT reset by BREAKS/POA’s
( except continous periods of POA/Break exceeding 9hrs )
Its the TOTAL ACCUMILATED DRIVING TIME ( since the start of shift )
But beware, this display is only refreshed at 1 minute intervals
( so wait at least one minute before viewing it )
Also beware if you pass Midnite UTC (i.e 00:00 UTC ) during your shift
Your record will be spead across two dates ( The previous day & Today’s DATE )
( you can also view past records this way, ie if your nosy and someone else drove your wagon yesterday, you can look at how many miles they did, what breaks they took,
when they started finished etc etc.
by changing the Display Driver [date] option )
The formation of the display in “Display Driver” is almost identical to that of a printout,
But you can only view a single line at a time (not the whole record, like in a printout)
(accumilated driver hours are near the bottom, just like on a printout )
Have fun…
Ho Yes, if you have an habbit of frequently recording Break or POA
just to keep your WT hours down.
check your Driving Time [one down-arrow press], before setting either:
( and NOTE it down somewere)
see you out there