Cat eye pressure monitors. Good or bad?

Kyle,you forget 1 thing in the chain off events.
As the tyre deflates the sidewalls start to flex more and more.
This is what causes the heat building up.
BUT a second effect,which is the real tire killer,is that the extra flexing off the sidewalls is breaking the steel threads in those sidewalls.

 

And what is a decent system in cab monitoring. I'm still not impressed with the TST system. Just can't get all the sensors to read all the time.

 

Flightline,what i use is the following:
http://www.wabco-auto.com/en/tire-p..._integrated-vehicle-tire-pressure-monitoring/
And it has worked perfectly.
But it isn't cheap.
It was designed by Wabco and Michelin together.

I can add i will not run my truck or trailer without it.
The peace off mind alone is worth it to me.(i don't have spare tyres with me to save weight)

 

You can still get an equalizer (cat eye, crossfire, etc) and put a monitoring system on the dual input instead of each tire. The whole reason for the equalizer is to stabilize pressure between the inside and outside tire. In my experience, the inside ones tend to increase a few pounds more than the outsides (the wheel is around the brake drum, picks up heat faster, etc), and that means you have to either a) constantly change your air pressure between inside and outside to accommodate the tires differences when rolling down the road, or keep up on rotating the tires so inside/outside and front-to-back keep your tires wearing evenly.

Prior to getting the crossfires (just got them), I was regularly rotating my drives to keep the wear as even as I could (inside-out seemed to be the most pressing issue), while my friend who had crossfires never rotated his tires inside out (only front-to-back halfway through their life) and had much better even wear on his tires for the same truck in relatively similar road travel.

 

Did you use a repeater? Seems like that would have made a difference if sensors were having trouble relaying info to monitor. I think they mention that if their is a problem that a repeater placed at the back of the sleeper would take care of it.

 

Yes I purchased the repeater also and it is on the back of the tractor. I also have kept the cat eyes and put the TPS sensors on the equalizers. There is another advantage of doing this as you do not need to purchase as many sensors.
It's one of the steers and one of the drives that I can not get it to pickup on. Maybe this weekend I'll find the time to tinker with them some more. The trailer sensors pickup fine but I do have the repeater installed.