Does anyone know how these things track engine hours? I was off riding my bike maybe 8 hrs yesterday yet the hr meter on the bike shows an increase of 10 ~8 hrs... Is this like a straight 1 hour recorded if the engine is running at any speed?
It is logged as rpm hours just like on a tractor. If you are at a higher rpm it will log more hours in the same time period then the same time at a lower rpm.
I thought I had read the same time on these meters putting on more hrs at higher RPMs but I rode alot at mid throttle yesterday and stopped more than once with the engine dead...
I just looked it up and I'm wrong about it's function. Zomby woof has it right. I assumed it was the same as diesel engine hour meters.
I'm a tractor driver from way-back ...Those tractor hrs were hard to roll on back then ... Bikes are easy to load up apparently ... Hr meters are all we have I guess for measuring a bikes' work load over a specific time frame but it really just reference apparently ... EX: Your 10 hrs of riding might be totally different from my 10 hrs of riding ... -- I was out ~7 hrs today on the bike and the meter logged 4 hrs ... Looking back on the ride yesterday, as compared to today, yesterday was lots more continuous miles of riding so that sort of ~fits with the meter just logging the engine was running with no regard to RPMs... I don't feel so bad about passing my hr mark for changing engine oil now.
I gage my needed maintenance by tanks of fuel and how many tires I've put on. Hours don't mean much if you're riding single track mostly in the mid range of the rpm. If you were racing open desert or motocross I could see how counting hours would be more relevant.
If I give it a little thought, that's sort of the same way I do my hour counting for my bike maintenance also... Not the tire count method but probably more gas tank \ total miles ridden, with the hr count as a reference also. I'm not on the low-hour count (usually my hr count is over the top side) of any maintenance-schedule chart I've seen here because I just can't see changing this ~$10 per liter oil so quickly with my normal riding here. All this lower RPM riding I do here is just shown as another hour the engine is running (at least idling) to these meters and contributes to that high engine HR count my bikes have... I'll have to stop idling the bike so much when on the trails to help keep my hr count down some ...
I have a 2012 TE310 and the hr meter on the dash says 26 hrs and Ibeat reads 19? Why are they different? Which is correct?
