BRAKE INSPECTOR

Brake Inspector® can save you hundreds of hours of workshop, equipment, & driver down time annually. The technology used in the Brake Inspector™ system offers unprecedented maintenance and diagnostic capabilities for trouble shooting faults in the exhisting brake systems. The following faults can quickly be diagnosed from the cab of the truck or bus. Brake Inspector™ also reduces pre-trip check time.

1. Worn, seized, or out of adjustment manual and automatic slack adjusters 
2. Slack adjusters that have not been set up properly
3. Leaking diaphragms or leaking airlines that may go undetected
4. Frozen or stuck air pressure relief valves.
5. Cracked or out of round brake drums.
6. Brakes shoes that may be "hung-Up" due to other faults in the brake system or slack adjuster faults.
7. Push rods that have not retracted.
8. Weak or broken emergency spring brakes.
9. Brake chambers that are not balanced.
10. Worn S cams

Safety Benefits

Brake Inspector® will provide a driver or maintenance staff with an accurate indication of brake stroke travel and emergency spring brake effectiveness before the truck or bus takes to the road. While on the road the drivers are provided a real time indication of brake status every time the brakes are applied. Faults in the brake system are identified in real time to the driver. The last brake application is stored in memory and can be recalled at any time by the push of a button.

Brake Inspector® will also detect brake fade as it is happening. The unique diagnostic abilities of Brake Inspector® make it possible to balance all brake chambers each time the brakes need to be adjusted providing uniform brake performance in normal and emergency stopping situations. Balanced braking will reduce the potential for loss of control, jack-knife situations and will extend tire life. (See Benefits of Brake Inspector® for more detailed information).

The Brake Inspector® electronic in-cab display provides accurate brake stroke travel indication in real time in the cab of a truck or bus. The display shows the status of four, six, or eight brake chambers depending on the gauge model that the truck or bus is equipped with. Each time the air brakes are applied the gauge will simultaneously show the brake stroke status of each brake chamber utilising a series of coloured light emitting diodes (LEDS). Each chamber that is being monitored has two corresponding LED positions on the gauge.

The last brake application is stored in memory enabling the driver or maintenance staff to recall the status of the air brakes at any time simply by pushing a single button.

The LEDS will also show the status of each spring brake application that is made when the emergency brake (spring brake) is applied. If the spring brake application is the last brake application it will be the one stored in memory.

The driver or maintenance staff can individually check the status of each brake chamber by pushing the status indicator button and cycling through each chamber position starting from the front left chamber. The LED beside the brake chamber that is being inspected will light up along with the row of four LEDS on top of the gauge.

These four LEDS two Green, one Yellow and one Red depict the complete brake stroke travel of a particular chamber.

The internationally accepted coloured-code standard, Green for "go", Yellow for "caution" and Red for "stop" has been used to represent air brake stroke travel.