Engine Oil Low Pressure Alarm

[GuglioLS]

This is a simple mod you can do to warn of low oil pressure.

I use my chipper for long periods of time, which means I am not in the tractor seat to monitor the Oil Pressure or Water Temp.

I found this Oil Pressure SwitchGage made by Murphy on ebay.
It is an Oil pressure gage that has an adjustable switch that will close a contact when the pressure drops below a set level.

It was installed in one of the spare oil pressure plugs - the TY395 engine has 4 selectable plugs to install oil pressure gages into.

The gauge trip pressure was set to 35 PSI - anytime the Oil pressure drops to 35 PSI or below it will set off a Radio Shack pulsing buzzer that can be heard even with the chipper running. I also connected a 195* water temp switch to the buzzer so that if the engine overheats the buzzer will go on as well.

You can click on the picture below for a full size image.




Larry

[3RRL]

That's a pretty cool add on Larry.
So what do you do when that buzzer goes off?
Do you rev up the engine to get more oil pressure?
Rob-

[GuglioLS]

So what do you do when that buzzer goes off?
Do you rev up the engine to get more oil pressure?

Yes Rob, that's exactly what I do. I installed it as more of a catastrophic warning system, as I hardly every pay any attention to idiot lights

Larry