Patent ID: 7067740

Claim:
A conversion kit for providing a sealed environment for containing a remote monitoring system transmitter and providing electrical connections between said transmitter and an existing environmentally sealed cable harness, wherein the existing cable harness is terminated by a boot for surrounding a cylindrical structure for environmental sealing contact therewith, the conversion kit comprising: an adaptor cable harness having at least one termination at a first end for connecting to said existing cable harness and having at least one termination at a second end for connecting to said transmitter; and an enclosure for containing said transmitter, including: a first hollow piece sized to accept said transmitter therein and having first and second open ends; and a second hollow piece having first and second open ends, said first open end of said second hollow piece being adapted to be telescopically connected to said second open end of said first hollow piece, said second open end of said second hollow piece being formed as said cylindrical structure surroundable by said boot; and a cover piece for sealing said first open end of said first hollow piece; wherein said second hollow piece is a unitary piece including: a first section including said first open end of said second hollow piece which is generally cylindrical for telescopically surrounding said second open end of said first hollow piece; a second section including said second open end of said second hollow piece and being formed as said cylindrical structure surroundable by said boot; and a third section between said first and second sections and being of frusto-conical shape to account for any diametric difference between said first and second sections of said second hollow piece; and the kit further including at least one spacer element for insertion between said transmitter and the interior of said first hollow piece.