Keeping track of PTO hours

With a vehicle that has PTO (power take-off) connected, it is good to know how many hours the PTO was in use when the vehicle needs to go into maintenance.

What is PTO?

A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine.

How to get PTO data?

1. Via FMS.
   The status of the PTO (on/off) is available via the FMS of a heavy vehicle.
   In this case we don't need to create a sensor.
   
   
2. Via a direct wired connection.
   This means that a wire is connected from the FleetGO hardware to (most of the time) the switch which activates the PTO.
   In this case we receive a signal (0 = off, 1 = on) if the PTO is on or not.
   We call this a Boolean signal. A boolean signal is always 0 and 1 and could be on/off, open/close, high/low etc.

Registering a PTO sensor

To keep track of the Power take-off hours for vehicles a PTO sensor can be registered.

• The sensor must be named: PTO - otherwise the functionality will not work.
• On the Administration page on the tab ‘Running hours’ you will find the fields ‘PTO start date’, ‘PTO start running hours’ and ‘PTO current hours’.
  • PTO start date: fill in start date (+ time)
  • PTO start running hours: fill in the already past PTO hours. Enter in full hours (no minutes).
  • PTO current hours: will be automatically calculated and updated with additional registered PTO hours each time a trip is ended.

Adding PTO column to Administration overview

The column ‘PTO current hours’ is available in the Administration overview, but by default is unselected.

You can add the column ‘PTO current hours’ via the Settings by selecting checkbox ‘PTO current hours’.

With the vehicles where PTO hours are tracked the most recent updated total of PTO current hours will be displayed.