You may find a few products that are trying to do the same thing. How do they compare? Let’s have a look..
Economy
Take your time and consider the cost of the complete solution
- Remote Float Tankside (RFT) retails for R1489 (US$82)
- Remote Float Pumpside (RFP) retails for R1989 (US$110)
Other solutions often require expensive batteries, or even solar power at the tank side. They are seldom supplied in a weatherproof enclosure, forcing you to buy an enclosure. Don’t forget you will probably need to spend effort to drill holes and sometimes even add additional switchgear. All of this pushes up the effective price for the installation. There are NO solutions that work out cheaper than Remotefloat.
Wireless Range
Wireless range is almost like cake. More is always better. Even if you don’t need it.
We proudly claim a wireless range of 15km+. This may seem outlandish, because surely no tank will be 15km away from its source? That may be true, but very often you don’t quite have “line of sight” between your two stations, in which case your wireless range is greatly diminished. If you start with a ridiculous range like 15km, then chances are that your signal will be able to reach the 2 or 3 km you may actually need, while going through some vegetation and perhaps even a few buildings. Our technology can even bounce its way to the receiver against far-off features if line of sight is not available, made possible by our fantastic range. Again, we claim 15km+, but what do we mean by ‘+’ ? The reality is that while transmitting at only 50% of our total wireless power, we have been able to reach 60km of range under ideal conditions. The only reason we are not claiming 60km as our range is because the number is just too big to sound believable.
Bidirectionality
If you cannot hear, how will you ever know if what you said, was heard?
A big word with big implications. Most competing systems use a plain transmitter on the tank side, and a plain receiver on the pump side. The one side only ever speaks, and the other side only ever listens. Much like some marriages 🙂 This may work OK, but it is technically not a good solution, because how does the transmitter ever know that the receiver has received a signal? The simple answer is they never do, and they simply hope. Remotefloat uses Transceivers on both sides, which means they can each transmit (speak) and receive (listen). All messages are acknowledged. If a signal struggles to get through, the sender will try again, perhaps at a higher power level.
A Clear winner..
RemoteFloat provides unbeatable value. There is nothing that comes close