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Your cart is empty.Monitor oil level from your kitchen. No more trips outside or into the basement. Installs in both basement and outside above ground tanks. Takes 15 minutes to install. No wiring needed. The receiver displays the oil level as bars, where each bar represents 10 percentages of the tank's capacity. Replaceable Lithium cell transmitter battery lasts over 10 years. Can be installed on vertical tanks, horizontal tanks, or any tank up to 10 feet tall. Tools needed: Pipe Wrench, Thread Sealant, Phillips Screwdriver
Scarecrow Repair
2025-07-05 15:47:54
I'm giving five stars even though it has a couple of design quirks, because nothing else I've seen comes close to what this can do.I have it mounted on the top of a 1000 gallon water tank, somewhere between 150-200 feet from where the receiver sits on the far wall of my house. It goes through one exterior wall with windows, possibly one interior wall, and that's pretty impressive, especially if the projected 10 year battery life holds true. Mounting it was easy enough, requiring cutting a proper sized hole in the top of the thick plastic tank.Now for the two design quirks.One is that you have to pair the receiver and transmitter EVERY TIME THE RECEIVER LOSES POWER. Trying to find the best place to put it inside your house? You better have a long extension cord, and then, having found the perfect spot, if you want to replace that long cord with something shorter, you will have to go to the tank, unscrew two Phillips screws, bring the transmitter to the house, re-pair the two, and take the transmitter back to the tank and re-mount it with the two screws. Power failures once or twice in the winter? Better put it on a UPS.I really don't understand why it has no battery for just a few minutes life. This is $130; raising the price to $150 if it included a 10 minute battery would be a no-brainer.The second quirk is that there are 8 dip switches to set to configure the tank size and shape. They've got a list of around a hundred settings (could go to 256 with 8 switches), ordered by height, with some notations for common tanks. I have just started at the first tank over 5 feet (mine is closer to 6 feet) and am trying each one in turn. It still is useful in a general sense, because all I really want to know is whether the float or other pump circuitry has died and is not pumping water. So far, it shows 50% when full, and 30% when near empty; I will keep trying combinations of switches until I find something better.It would be helpful if there were a better guide to choosing switches. Perhaps a formula would work -- empty and full heights, and diameter, that would be handy.But like I said at the beginning, there's nothing close to it that I can find for the price, so it gets 5 stars.
Customer
2025-07-01 16:14:40
Second I've bought. First lasted about 12 years and was a godsend when our float system went down. Never had any trouble knowing when to call for fuel and never ran out. Second one was just as easy to setup and it is working great.
David Jurdak
2025-06-23 11:04:01
This product is great, although expensive. My oil tank is in the cellar and this gauge allows me to view the receiver on my 1st floor plugged into the laundry room. Easy setup which took me less than 20 minutes
Russell Plamondon
2025-06-19 12:17:35
This is a great product it works great my tank is in a hidden spot hard to get to and read it now it’s in just plug in anyway in the house love it
Bob
2025-05-30 16:18:42
I installed this a few weeks ago so my elderly mother would stop going down cellar to check the oil level. I did have to resychronize the sender with the receiver to get it working, simple to do and the instructions are included, but it was not plug and play. It's working fine now. As an Instrumentation Technician I have installed and calibrated industrial ultrasound level sensors many times and the technology is very reliable. It does need a clean shot to the top of the fluid; the sound waves can't hit the side walls, or anything inside the tank (is there an existing mechanical float in the path?). The sender cannot be raised much above the top of the tank such that the return sound waves hit the edge of the opening. Foam will also generally prevent ultrasound from working, Tanks subject to temperature extremes during the day may cause condensation to accumalate on the sender face causing erratic readings; pull it off and wipe it down to fix that. These are issues not unique to this product but rather with the technology. One thing I did not determine was the distance the wireless signal would work. Mine is located in the room right above the sender and works fine. My wish list has 2 items: 1.) make the display a bit larger, to make it more readable from a distance and 2.) install contacts for (settable) hi, lo, lo-lo alarms. this could be a seperate wireless alarm module (prefered) or part of the display. This would be sweet to tie into an autodialer or security system to let me know when there is an issue.Overall, for the price, sender technology, wireless receiver, this is a bargain,
Roy W. Burnham, Jr
2025-02-25 15:08:38
If you calibrate it probably it works great
Frederick L. Johanns III
2025-01-29 16:56:27
Worked exactly as designed. The product uses sonar to "ping" the tank and then based on dip switches in the receiver, uses raw depth readings to calculate tank levels based on tank height. I own a duplex with one furnace (and one tank) on the other side of the house- through my tenant's locked basement. This is perfect for my situation, if a little expensive. I believe it costs so much b/c no one else has a similar product (at least not in the U.S.).Installation was a snap. If you're even moderately handy, all you need is a pipe wrench, some thread sealant (Teflon tape or goop), a screw driver and about 20 minutes and you'll be good to go. I definitely recommend this product.
Tina S
2025-01-08 14:12:28
I live in an old home with two oil tanks in the cellar. The indicator that was in there was the original one. I'm thinking of calling a museum. You just never knew how much oil you had, and you had to run down there to check. I just moved in 2 months ago and was not used to that. I ran out of oil twice. Now I know exactly how much oil I have. I was told it was easy to install. I have it plugged into the kitchen and I just glance at it when the weather man says its going to be cold.
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