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Calibre Tacho help?
jjwebb123 - February 12th, 2010 at 08:05 AM

has anyone installed a calibre tacho before,when i rig up the ground and positive source i am suppose to get the complete light up of the tacho instead i get just one red light whats the go.?
thaNKS


Joel - February 12th, 2010 at 08:37 AM

if your talking about the illumination its a seprate power wire again, hook it too your parkers or ignition circuit if u want it lit up all the time


jjwebb123 - February 12th, 2010 at 10:01 AM

it says on the instruction to never connect the green wire which is the coil wire to a positive source why is that?


Joel - February 12th, 2010 at 11:37 AM

cos its actually recieves a ground signal everytime the points shut which is how the tach works

connect 12volts to that and watch the tach go up in smoke


jjwebb123 - February 12th, 2010 at 03:49 PM

:(,so do they have a fuse? because there is a possibility when trying to find positive source that the green cable touched.calibre is not an actual compnay i think super cheap make them,so i cant contact them.


jjwebb123 - February 14th, 2010 at 12:15 PM

bump..


jsheppard64 - February 14th, 2010 at 08:00 PM

stupid me did the same thing to an old VDO tach
wired it to the wrong side of the coil
no bang!, Poof sounds or anything
pulled the tach apart and found that i burned the coil


jjwebb123 - February 15th, 2010 at 08:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jsheppard64
stupid me did the same thing to an old VDO tach
wired it to the wrong side of the coil
no bang!, Poof sounds or anything
pulled the tach apart and found that i burned the coil


oh really,yeah that is what happened to me,no sounds just no display.could you fix it?