I'm looking for an inexpensive tach for my Kinetic TFR. Any suggestions?
Tachometer
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Take your CHOICE . :)
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Look up hour meter/tachometer on Amazon. They're like 15 to 25 bucks, be sure to read the reviews so you know you're buying a good one. Most have a replaceable watch battery and double sided tape to stick it somewhere convenient. The one I have goes up to 20k rpm. You wrap a little sensor wire around your spark plug wire and then secure it with zip ties. That's where the signal comes from. Cheap and stupid simple.
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Thanks
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If you wrap the wire around the spark plug wire and slip a piece of heat shrink over it, it looks really clean and stays put.
I'm trying a new one on a current build that is analog, but needs wired into cdi
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I bought a few from China for like 4$ each n Aliexpress. All 4 of them work excellent. Just throw in a battery (last for like 2 years before changing) screw it down (or zipties) and wrap the only wire 4x around the plug wire for inductive signal. Have to set it up for 1 spark per rev, they come as 2 per rev (4 stroke lawn mower setting)
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Make sure you rubber mount it. Had an analog on my Tomos and it didn’t last very long with the vibes. Was cool to watch vs. digital
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If you're running an HPI these tachs are pretty awesome and there's many options as I really prefer to have a analog needle swinging over a flashing number.
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