Product Details
Universal 0 to 100 psi Temperature Compensated Digital Tire Pressure Gauge by Longacre®. This product is manufactured to help you with your tire repair and maintenance tasks. Made from quality materials using the latest manufacturing processes and techniques, it ensures a positive user experience and allows for achieving the finest results with minimum effort and expense.
Notes
- These products are for racing use only. They are not recommended for street use.
Specifications
Style: Digital |
Size: 3-1/2" |
Range: 0 to 100 psi |
Increments: .1 lb (.01 bar) |
Accuracy: .1 lb / .1% |
Operating Temperature Range: 35 to 100° F |
Hose Length: 17" |
Chuck Installed: Swivel angle |
Alternate Chuck Included: Swivel ball |
Holds Pressure: No |
Stores Pressure (memory): Yes |
Pressures Displayed (memory): 4 |
Air Pressure Release Buttons: Three bleed buttons |
Backlight: Yes |
Metric Switchable: Yes |
Temperature Probe Included: Yes |
Stores Temps (memory): Yes |
Temps Displayed (memory): 12 |
Battery Type: 9V |
Gauge Bumper Included: Yes |
Features
- Specially made for your tire repair and maintenance
- Manufactured from quality materials to the highest standards
- Built to withstand the test of time
- Easy-to-use product at a fair price
- Designed to help to get your job done right
- Manufactured utilizing the highest quality materials
- Built to provide exceptional levels of durability
Setting The Most Accurate Tire Pressures If tire pressures are critical to your car's performance - closer than +/- 1 psi - then you really need what this gauge can do for you. Pressures must be set in the pits but the tires sitting there can easily vary by as much as 20°. You are setting on-track hot pressures by guessing (lots of experience here) at the starting cold pressure. If you want the tire to grow to 38 psi on the track you set it in the pits at say 28 psi. Sounds reasonable. You have been doing it for years.
But what was the temperaturein the pits? If it was 80° (like it usually is) you are OK. But what if one or two had been in the sun and had crept up to 90°? For every 10° temp change there is a 0.8 psi change. So instead of 28 psi (at 90°) you effectively set it at 27.2 psi (what it would have been at 80° rather than 90°).
Would this make a difference? If not, take a look at other tire pressure gauges. If it would, (NASCAR™ Cup teams fret about 0.2 - 0.3 psi) you really need to set all starting pressures at the same temperature week in and week out. This way the on-track pressures will be the same. But how do you do that? You will have great difficulty controlling the temperatures (impossible really). And yet you need to.
A better way is to correct the pressures to what they would have been had you been able to keep the tires at a constant temperature. You could use a pyrometer to measure the tires temp, then use a calculator to compute what the pressure should be at that temp rather than just putting in 28 psi. Slow and cumbersome to say the least.
But you don't have to do that. This "Temperature Compensating Tire Pressure Gauge"will do it for you. It can take the temperature of the tire using a traditional tire temp probe, instantly calculate the correction back to a standard temperature, and show the pressure you should be putting in the tire. It may not be the actual pressure at that moment. But it will be the correct pressure when it counts, on the track.
Here's how it works: Insert the tire probe in the side of the gauge. Measure the temperature the usual way - in the tread area. Push the Mode button to get to Temp Compensation. While in the Mode the pressures will be compensated and correct back to a standard temperature (80°). Push Mode again to go to tire temps or back to traditional tire pressures.
Since 1978, Longacre® has been a leading innovator in the design and development of top-of-the-line racing products. It set itself apart by exceptional quality, innovation and leading-edge technology incorporated in its creations, and which is why speed maniacs and the most recognized names in modern-day racing rely on top-grade Longacre products in finding their way to victory lane. For those who is looking to fine tune their set up with consistent results, superior Longacre Computerscales, tire pressure gauges, durometers, memory tire pyrometers, caster camber gauges are what the doctor ordered. Longacre also offers the widest selection of premium dash and switch panels, brake lines and fittings, safety wires and pliers, and many more.