Hi Brayden - Yes - Sorry - Tacho Report!
DELIVERY
Put my money down - Tacho arrived rather promptly a few days later.
- Have bought other stuff from them and never had a problem with this mob.
MOUNTING
After a few days of deciding where/how to fit it, I settled on mounting it to the steering column shroud adjacent to the Speedo - DONT try to dismantle this tacho with the view to rotate it in it's housing (as I thought it aught to do) - It wont, and if you remove the two small screws from the rear of the housing you'll simply allow the circuit board to fall into the sealed enclosure
(Don't ask how I know this!)
So I fabricated a customised lump of finest pallet timber to a shape that filled the space between the shroud and the speedo base and then fitted it all up. - I'm happy with the install - I think it looks quite satisfactory.
ELECTRICAL CONNECTION
The Tacho itself is an analogue display of a digital device - the wiring diagram that came with it is adequate if you've ever tinkered with car wiring you should have no problem connecting it up.
I soldered an extension onto the green lead (signal) and fed the end through a grommet up under the dash into the engine bay, followed the existing loom and connected it up to the negative post on the coil (the one that goes to the dissy).
The Black (Earth) wire I simply took to a convenient screw into the car body.
Red is power and I poked about the fuse box to find a lead that was hot only with the ignition "on" and spliced into that.
The two white wires are for the backlight LED lighting and go to a small "black box" that obviously drops 12v to 5v for the LEDs the other side of the black box is red & black. I wired Red into a lead that was live when parkers were on, and the black to the same screw for the unit's earth.
Then I tucked all the extra wiring (The Lighting wiring is rediculously long, given the lengths of the other leads which are adequate except the signal lead which was too short) up under the dashboard and cable tied it up out of the way so it can't come loose at an inappropriate moment and fall into anything and cause a problem.
OPERATION
Being digital (and most likely ex. china) it has a multi-position switch on the back and can be set to work with any of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 cylinders - sweet! - Set the switch to the "3" position.
The unit has an integral shift light and adjustable knob on the front. - I set this to about 5.5 and it flashes briefly when I hit 5,500 revs before shifting up when I'm driving "spiritedly"
NIGHT TIME
The backlight is fiercely bright at night - and throws up a large blue disk on the windscreen - a-la - HUD style. This is a bummer because it does obstruct the view out the windscreen at night. I intend making a shroud I will permenantly attach to the top segment of the tacho that will prevent this effect but not obstruct my view of the tacho itself. Once I've done that, I'll be very happy with it!
P.S. What the hell am I doing wrong? - I want my images to appear in the posting, like I've seen plenty of people do recently... tried using the IMG tag in the editor - thinking that would work - didn't - tried using the URL tag - that didn't work either - gave up!
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If you want to see what I did just edit your post.
