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Old November 29th 2011, 22:15
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Originally Posted by Xellex View Post
On that note, but a bit offtopic, if there's anyone with good knowledge in electronics please hear me up:
I'd like to make a little piggy-back unit, to place on the signal cable in between the coil and rpm meter. It would get the rpm signal from the coil negative side (or the Megajolt tach-out pin in my case) and increase the frequency by X1.5 fooling the tacho into believing it's a 6 cylinder engine.
I'm pretty sure it's an extremely simple thing to design and probably costs less than 10 dollars in parts, but I can't seem to get any of my buddies that know electronics to sit with me and think this over.
$85 will solve your problem without having to learn any electronics.

http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd127.htm



...or find someone who knows electronics.

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