Worked well. Have had it now for about 3 hours of flying. So far so good.

James D Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

got it, installed it and it works... thanks

Brittaleigh D Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

Worked great

Billy C Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

This Hobbs was delivered ahead of schedule and in perfect condition. Works great!

Ken L Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

Arrived on time and works great so far!

Nick L Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

I installed it and it worked.

Keith R Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

Just installed the third one in as many months. they stop intermittently until a knock on the panel next to it starts it up again. maybe a bad batch?

Brian O Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

AS Expected

I purchased this meter in 2004 when I bought a brand-new lawn tractor. I used an electrician's knockout punch set to make a perfect hole in the main mower body into which I mounted this. It is in a location where it gets bumped nearly every time I mow the lawn, as it is kind of behind my work boots. Not only has it held up to this point (nearly ten years later) but also has 650.3 hours on it! I keep track of when I replace things. So far, I have completely rebuilt the mowing deck and painted it with two-part Epoxy Paint, replaced the automatic transmission at 480 hours and just this winter, replaced the original 22 HP engine with a brand new 27 HP engine! I would definitely buy another one of these and would also have no problem highly-recommending this to ANYONE!

Gauge itself is very good. Hardware is cheap. Instructions are unreadable, seems like a copy from a copy from a copy…

J.a.m. B Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

#873 is the standard 2 1/4 aircraft panel size, mounts with 4 screws. In adding hours to the unit, to match SMOH on the aircraft engine, I found the meter is about 2% inaccurate. Specs say .02%, which would not be noticed. 2% will be noticed.

Not sure about these, I have had 2 recently fail. One at around 600 hrs and the most recent one at 120 hrs.

Pat D Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

Just under 58 hours on this and the meter has failed with intermittent operation, this is my third in about 4 years, the first 2 were ordered preset, the three combined have less than 600 hours total. Going to give it another try.

Use this for my training aircraft at a small flight school. Went through 4 of these in ~3 years. Very poor quality for an aircraft part.

Bought one a year ago. Stopped working at about 250 hours. Just put a new one in last month. Stopped working at 99.0 hours.

After 37 hours it failed. Enough said about the quality. Never again!

Joshua P Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

This is the second hour meter from Datcon that I had to order the first one stopped working after only 25 hours. Unfortunately, original Hobbs meters are no longer available since Honeywell discontinued this business (only NOS is available).

Rolf H Verified Purchase

Datcon Hour Meter Mdl # 873

These are about the worst thing I have seen. I have 6 of them on my desk all with less then 800 hours on them. The problem is I really dont know where to go since Honeywell no longer makes Hobbs brand.