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Old 19th October 2011, 11:51 AM
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Thanks Bob, that passion ford picture confirms what I thought I'm gonna have a go at making the loom bit with diodes as they only cost £2 off fleabay for enough to make 10 looms so if anyone else wants one let me know
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Old 19th October 2011, 07:06 PM
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looking at that simple little circuit using two diodes and a zenner its converting the two signels from each coil (4 cyl wasted spark is two coils) to a single coil and dizzy type signel to run a std tacho
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Old 19th October 2011, 08:22 PM
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looking at that simple little circuit using two diodes and a zenner its converting the two signels from each coil (4 cyl wasted spark is two coils) to a single coil and dizzy type signel to run a std tacho
Thats the general idea!
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Old 26th November 2011, 07:24 PM
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Finally got round to creating the bit of loom for this using the diodes, bit of a mission to get it working but I got there in the end with some help from my brother who's good at soldering Engine idles around 500 rpm and when reved up, where I thought it was close to the redline from the sound, it's only doing 3krmp
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Old 26th November 2011, 08:08 PM
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You could always check calibration of the rev counter with a decent timing light. Some of those rev counters have a trim screw in them.

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