Cleaning products for digital tachographs

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Cleaning cards:

In the meantime almost all trucks and busses with a permissible gross vehicle weight exceeding 3,5t have been provided with digital tachographs. Two chip card readers are located in all digital tachographs, regardless of brand and model. Every truck driver has one “driver card” with a chip, which has to be inserted into the tachograph during the entire trip. All the data relating to the driver are saved onto this driver card. If there are two persons in the vehicle who take turns in driving the truck, the driver cards of both of them have to be inserted into the reader.

Depending on environmental conditions, sooner or later, it will come to reading errors. Due to dust, nicotine and dirt, which is carried to the chip contacts by the driver card, the chip reading contacts in such equipment are exposed to a high dirt exposures. Also the constant air circulating air conditioners in the vehicles add to extraordinary rapid dirt deposits on the chip contacts.

DISKO has responded to these circumstances, together with a large service and testing organization, and developed and launched a cleaning card for chip reading contacts for all digital tachographs. With this cleaning card it is possible that a truck driver can resolve such an error by himself or make a preventive cleaning, for the first time.

DISKO cleaning cards for cleaning the chip reading device in tachographs are operational for cleaning of all equipment that is available on the current market. The stable core is responsible for failure-free transport. The attached micro fibre layer, which is produced in a high-frequency technique, guarantees the highest quality of cleaning and absorbs dirt into the fibres at the same time. A dry cleaning of the chip reading contacts without taking apart the equipment, is only possible with DISKO cleaning cards. Only this technology lets to avoid destruction of the transportation mechanisms through chemical reactions. 
The cleaning quality is significant higher compared to cleaning with pre-moistened cleaning cards, because the pores filled with a fluid do not have the ability to absorb dirt. 
A test held by technicians from one of the well-known service companies shows the prominent difference in quality. The 3 pictures below show a heightened chip reading contact: In the first picture very dirty contact; In the second picture the same contact after cleaning with a pre-moistened cleaning card; In the third one you see the chip contact after cleaning with the DISKO micro fibre cleaning card. Not until the cleaning with DISKO cleaning card the chip reading contact is really clean.

 

Cleaning cloths

Dirty “Driver Cards” for digital tachographs, often are the reason for the contamination of the chip reading contacts within the tachograph. A continuous and preventive cleaning of the microchips leads to fewer card reading errors and therefore safes a lot of time and money.

DISKO cleaning cloths have been developed especially for cleaning the microchips of those “Driver Cards”. Soft micro fibre materials with highest dirt absorption anticipate the scratching of the surface of the microchips.

A high class composite foil material guards desiccation for at least 5 years, although temperatures from over 60 degrees are no rarity within a truck.
The used cleaning fluid boosts the mechanic characteristics of the micro fibre cloths and is simultaneously disinfecting the surface in just one working process.