I did but I connected it to the negative side instead. I will try it on the positive tomorrow.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:51 AM Subject: RE: Tacho Wiring > Zac, > > That's right on the 180BSSS pulse tacho, but the power wire is red and the > earth is green from memory so they're pretty easy to figure out. BTW, do you > run your pulse connection wires right to the coil as I said you have to with > the GL wiring. If you don't the pulse type are unpredictable. > > regards > Terry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zac Campbell > Sent: Monday, 25 March 2002 12:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Tacho Wiring > > > Terry, the tacho I have in my car at the moment (which doesn't work) is a > 180b electronics inside a 1600 tacho body. The pulse wires are black/blue. I > used to hvae a 1600 tacho and that was white(/red?) as per usual. > > zac > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terry Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 11:35 PM > Subject: RE: Tacho Wiring > > > > Richard, > > > > We got this done, I wrote a bit of an essay on it. Have you ever seen blue > > pulse wires, the other colours (green & black) were screwy too so I was > > flying blind. > > > > I forgot to ask Alan which wires turned out to be the Pos & Neg, I'm > > guessing the green was pos as it would be weird if it was black. I worked > it > > out which would be which by having a look down the guts of a 180BSSS pulse > > tacho - seems to have worked. > > > > regards > > Terry > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Clough > > Sent: Sunday, 24 March 2002 10:02 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Tacho Wiring > > > > > > The blue wire sounds like the pulse wire, its usually white. Disconnect > your > > coil +ve and connect it to a wire running to your blue tacho wire. The > > return from your tacho becomes the coil +ve input, (Some one confirm this > > please, its been awhile since I wired one). > > > > The other 2 are the power and earth wires. Wire the power wire to a > > terminal under the dash which becomes active when ignition is switched on. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan Attwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, 22 March 2002 20:57 PM > > Subject: Re: Tacho Wiring > > > > > > > Seems no one knows anything about this subject. I'll have to take it to > > an > > > auto electrician. Thanks anyway. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Alan Attwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:48 PM > > > Subject: Re: Tacho Wiring > > > > > > > > > > Terry, > > > > The two blue wires don't have any crimp fittings on them, they > look > > > like > > > > they've been cut and stripped. They do loop through the plate with > the > > > > 'long screw thingy' like you said. The green wire has a spade crimp > and > > > the > > > > black has also been cut. They go into the centre of the back, there > is > > no > > > > grommet but it's probably just fallen off at some stage. If you can > > give > > > me > > > > some ideas i'd really appreciate it. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: Terry Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:31 PM > > > > Subject: RE: Tacho Wiring > > > > > > > > > > > > > Alan, > > > > > > > > > > We have to identify exactly which tacho you've got here, the wiring > > > > colours > > > > > are a bit different to what I've seen and wired into other 1600's. > > > > > > > > > > 2 x Blue wires? the 1600 SSS pulse tacho wires are normally white, > the > > > > power > > > > > is red and the earth is green. The electronic type has 4 different > > > > colours, > > > > > i.e. white, red, green & black. One thing for sure is whatever type > it > > > is > > > > > both blue wires wont connect to the -ve side of the coil. Do the > blue > > > > wires > > > > > loop through a small shiny plate with a long screw thingy sticking > up > > at > > > > the > > > > > bottom of the tacho and the other two wires go into a rubber grommet > > in > > > > the > > > > > centre of the back of it? Do the blue wires have connectors on the > > ends > > > eg > > > > a > > > > > male spade on one and a female spade on the other? I'm thinking > you've > > > got > > > > > an in series and the other two wires will be +12v and earth but > which > > is > > > > > which. > > > > > > > > > > Is it a 1600 tacho you've got, a 180B SSS tacho has 2 x blue/black > > wires > > > > but > > > > > the other 2 wires are red and green so I don't think that's what > > you've > > > > got. > > > > > > > > > > If you give me some more detail that I've asked for I should be able > > to > > > > tell > > > > > you how to wire it up. > > > > > > > > > > regards > > > > > Terry (anyone seen this wiring combo in a 1600 tacho) > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan > Attwood > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 5:14 PM > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: Tacho Wiring > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi yal. > > > > > Just got myself a SSS tacho (apparently from a GL, you may have > > seen > > > > the > > > > > ad in the ozdat classifieds). I'm not 100% sure how it hooks up, > > > there's > > > > > two blue wires, a green and a black. Apparently the blue wires > > connect > > > to > > > > > the negative terminal on the coil, but I don't know about the other > > two. > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
