rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

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rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by turbo-tom » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:09 pm

rev counter is not working - dont think its not connected but i have the 8v vit lump , and were do/ is it meant to be connected up to ?

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Re: rev counter is not working

Post by Darrell » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:56 pm

Normally goes to the coil negative terminal. I would give that a try.
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Re: rev counter is not working

Post by turbo-tom » Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:42 pm

cheers mate for that , just tried it and no luck :roll: , just going to by a universal one i think now

thanks anyway :thumbup:
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Re: rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by turbo-tom » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:17 pm

tried that again but nope still wont work :S

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emailed the seller he said it "should work" on my coil

so its universal brand new, so your opinions please :)
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Re: rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by Edweird » Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:50 pm

Well, it looks like it works the same way the one I've designed does. Takes the LT frequency as an input. As he said, it should work provided there's no gremlins in the system.
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Re: rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by turbo-tom » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:42 pm

cheers ed so you say this one would be okay? :salute:
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Re: rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by Edweird » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:38 pm

I think so. It takes it's input from the same place as mine, and mine works.
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Re: rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by Darrell » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:27 am

More info.............
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Re: rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by turbo-tom » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:26 pm

im not that good at diagrams pal!

ive got the brown and white wire comming out of the original loom and thats it and its been cut off ? tried putting into the coil were suggest and got nothing...

does it have to go through a noise supressor or something ?
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Re: rev counter is not working now its gone up the swaney!!!

Post by Edweird » Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:42 pm

That would probably depend on the one you've bought as to whether it need to go through the suppressor. Given your old one stopped working the suppressor is one of the things that could have broken though.
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