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Smoke Meters

Posted by Rob Harris on October 4, 2008, 2:55 pm

Can any body please give me some staight info on smoke meters.

I need to change my smoke meter for my m.o.t. bay and my head is boggled with all these sales men telling me this and that.

Cheers,

Rob

Re: Smoke Meters

Posted by Mark Carter on October 4, 2008, 4:34 pm, in reply to "Smoke Meters"
Mark Carter

Hi, lets face it they all do the same(meausre smoke)and the ones you will be looking at will all be "approved" or you can not use them, so as far as I can see it boils down to the following;
Not in order

1) price
2) build quality
3) after sales support
4) presentation of printout(front of house)
5) ease of use
6) ability to load other programs(dual use)

Happy hunting!!
Regards Mark.

Re: Smoke Meters

Posted by aidan birley on October 4, 2008, 5:02 pm, in reply to "Re: Smoke Meters"
Aiden Birley

Rob

Consider your current EGA make, have you been happy with product, price & support ? If so you may save on calibration costs if use can do a deal as both can be calibrated on the same visit.

Also how old is the EGA ? If a few years old may be worth doing a deal on combi unit, or at least taken in to consideration cost of upgrading smoke to combi at some time.

probably just added to your confusion

Cheers Aidan

Re: Smoke Meters

Posted by Richard Endean on October 5, 2008, 5:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Smoke Meters"
Richard Endean

Rob,

We've been very pleased with our Bosch BEA 350. It's not pc based like so many setups which makes it very quick and easy to use. They do the BEA850 if you want pc based to add other systems like KTS etc.
Very good service received from Joe at Celtech. Despite being miles away they're on the doorstep within hours if you get a problem. I think he has an ebay shop if you want to look.

HTH
Richard

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