Workplace downtime due to forklift trucks running out of fuel could soon be a problem of the past thanks to a new, high-tech, fuel level sensing system available on trucks produced by Yale Materials Handling. The Optical Fuel Level Sensor is an option on all of the company’s Veracitor VX LPG trucks. It indicates when an LPG truck is beginning to run out of fuel.
Tom Pickering, the company’s product strategy manager, says conventional systems can give as little as 30 seconds warning before trucks grind to a halt.
“LPG is normally supplied to the engine in liquid form before it is converted into gas vapour by the fuel system. When the LPG tank pressure drops below a certain level, the sensor – which utilises optical refraction technology – identifies the presence of gas vapour in the fuel lines, indicating low fuel.”
The new sensor gives up to 15 minutes warning of low fuel.
