(June 8, 2015 at 7:40 pm)JuliaL Wrote: Why did the engineers that created the tire pressure monitoring system hardware make it battery operated?
It seems that plenty of energy could have been siphoned from the turning wheel and the system wouldn't reliably fail in about 5 years.
I have my theory, it involves them being evil puppets of MBAs.
Price of manufacture. I've heard of newer TPM's that power off the Rotor or knuckle magnetism, but I've not seen one yet.
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