Gas Level Bluetooth Ultrasonic Gas Level Sensor Instructions & tricks of the trade.

Most FAQ's on the GAS IT Bluetooth products :

 

  • On the app, the Bluetooth Symbol is showing you the signal strength from the Bluetooth  sensor to your smart device.  We have experienced distances of up to 30 feet from the bottle to the monitor or smart device. This distance can vary depending on electrical disturbance, walls, items between the bottles etc.
  • To download the app and find all its information - where to find the download, what its called, who wrote it and so on is instruction number 1 on the GAS IT Bluetooth instructions supplied with every GAS IT Bluetooth sensor. if you've lost the instructions you can always download a copy of the same instructions below. 
  • The Sensors come with a small amount of Dielectric grease in a packet which needs to be applied to the rubber button on the sensor, about the size of a small pea, before the sensor is placed under the bottle.  The rubber button is between the 2 magnets on sensor and the grease is used to help the signal of the ultrasonic sensor even more accurate. 
  • The 3 vertical stars are showing you the quality of the ultrasonic signal from and to the sensor on the bottom of the gas bottle through the liquid in the bottle.  If after a few minutes you have no starts in green, take the sensor off the bottom of the bottle and stick it below the known liquid level in the gas bottle on the side.  if you then get green stars the sensor is working and there is a problem with the gas bottle bottom - clean it and make sure it is dry when the sensor is first fitted.  The stars will also show zero is the sensor can not pick up the top of the liquid level in the gas bottle due to the incorrect bottle size not being set in the app or the bottle having been overfilled beyond the maximum 85 ltr reading level on the standard sensor ( we have a XL sensor for 47kg bottles and bulk tanks up to 4000 ltrs ).  When you use the gas, the liquid level will drop to the correct level for the bottle size you have selected it will start to read down in increments of 1% normally to the bottom. 

 

  • The Bluetooth Ultrasonic Sensors comes with 2 magnets that will only stick to steel bottles or tanks. To attach the sensor to a aluminium bottle you need to attach it via double sided tape or have the sensor taped in place. The rubber button between the 2 magnets on the sensor must be in contact with the base of the bottle to work.

 

  • Due to the way composite bottles are made with variations between the weave we have found these sensors will not work satisfactory so we do not recommend them on any composite bottle 

 

  • If you find the readings on some bottles are spurious or your seeing high or even low readings the sensor could be picking up any of the valve components inside the gas bottle - the outlet valve, the shut off valve, the gas level indicator and so on. If this happens just move the sensor a centimetre or so off centre, leave it for an hour or so and if the reading is still not right move it another centimetre and continue to try other locations under the bottle if need be - it's important to leave the sensor once in a new location to allow it to calibrate its new location. It happens on 1 out of 200 gas bottles as the ultrasonic sensor is bouncing upwards and towards a item in the bottle.  Once the sweet point and best location has been found it will read perfectly there after.  If you find that after moving the sensor its doesn't help then try doing a hard reset which involves opening the unit and removing the battery for 5 minutes and then reinstalling the battery and replacing the cover ( making sure the seal is intact and in place.  Resetting the unit by battery removal helps in most cases where the unit has got confused during setup of multiple units or when swapping sensors from bottle to bottle without letting it calibrate.

 

  • You will not see 100% reading when the gas bottles are in the full status, as no gas bottle is filled to the very top.  You should see anything from 80% up to 89% as the gas is not allowed to fill to the very top as there has to be an expansion allowance in the top void space.  The level in the bottle varies at all times due to temperature of the bottle in storage and also when you filled, pump pressure, calibration of the pump etc.  If you do see high or low reading see the section above about moving the sensor.

 

  • If you find that the sensor work as you thought and seems glitchy then try doing a hard reset which involves opening the unit and removing the battery for 5 minutes and then reinstalling the battery and replacing the cover ( making sure the seal is intact and in place.  Resetting the unit by battery removal helps in most cases where the unit has got confused during setup of multiple units or when swapping sensors from bottle to bottle without letting it calibrate.

 

  • Using a standard sensor on a 47kg bottle.  (On 47kg bottles we recommend the XL version sensor ) If you have fitted the standard sensor because you already had it for another bottle application, don't worry as it will still work when the gas level gets down to 80 - 85 ltrs.  We have found that If the 47kg bottle is full of gas the likelihood is that the standard sensor ( whose reading limit is 85 ltrs ) will initially stay at zero on 47kg bottles only, that is until the gas level gets down to 85 ltrs ( as the standard sensor will start to read from 85 ltrs and 47kg bottles have between 90 and 94 lts in them when full usually ).  So once the gas level in your 47kg bottle falls below the 85 ltr limit it will read in perfect 1% increments down to zero.  Depending on your gas use this might take a few hours to a few days to get the liquid level down to the readable level. 

If you fit the XL sensor to the 47kg bottles from the start you won't have any of these issues above as its designed to read much larger bottles.

The setup for 47kg bottles on either sensor is first to make sure the bottle height in the setting section ( listed in bottle size as Arbitrary ) is to 100 cm which during tests we found covers all the brands of 47kg exchange gas bottle levels.   

For setup / first install, please find attached the setup and fitting instructions for the GAS IT Bluetooth sensor and Bluetooth led monitor range of products.

You get full UK warranty on any Mopeka product sold directly by GAS IT. ( We do not warranty or support any gray imported products bought outside the UK or from other sources.)