Tech Tips Archives - Emergency Equipment

Tech Tips: Interlocks

Posted by Tucker Kuntz
On January 29, 2019

INFORMATION TO HELP OUR CUSTOMERS REDUCE TIME OUT OF SERVICE INTERLOCKS by Barry Coker Interlocks have been around forever on fire trucks. The main purpose they serve is to protect the firefighter […]

Tech Tips: Pressure Governors

Posted by Tucker Kuntz
On August 8, 2018

Pressure Governors by Barry Coker It seems that with every new advancement in technology that is supposed to make something quicker, simpler or “better”, a new problem is created. With the introduction of Electronic Pressure Governors, some new twists on old issues have surfaced. The Pressure Governor operates by using a 0-5 vdc […]

Tech Tips: Pump Damage? From WHAT?

Posted by Tucker Kuntz
On March 9, 2018
emergency equipment professionals

8:00 AM, the AO coming on shift comes in to report that the pump is making a horrible noise that he has never heard before. You just had the biggest fire for your Dept. in 30 years last night and the main aerial used now has something very wrong!! So they go […]

Tech Tips: Everything Affects Everything

Posted by Tucker Kuntz
On December 21, 2017

During my almost 30 years of working on Fire Trucks the one thing I have learned that is set in stone: “As soon as you learn all the answers, someone changes all the questions.” The trucks I worked on when I first started are light years away from the trucks produced today. Computers and NASA […]

Tech Tips: Introduction Issue

Posted by Tucker Kuntz
On December 11, 2017

Welcome everyone: I would like to welcome you to a new section for our customers. We call it TECH TIPS, and we hope you will enjoy and learn from what we try to bring to the table. My name is Barry Coker. I have been working in the fire truck industry for about 30 […]