T&T: Tachometer Problem

Arild Jensen 2elnav at netbistro.com
Tue Aug 5 20:07:20 EDT 2008


Scott H.E. Welch wrote:
> The bad news is that I have not yet figured out what I can do about it, other
> than installing a dedicated tachometer sender.
>
> Perhaps someone else has a suggestion?
REPLY
The easy solution is to place a dropping resistor from alternator output 
to ground.  Something along the line of 20 - 30 ohms and 25 watts to 
dissipate the heat. 
This was a trick  often suggested by Balmar  to cure this tach drive issue.

Arild


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