I just got my ace well speedo. Initial thoughts are the display is a bit small, but the cable attachments long enough that I think I can get the display to fit in front of the steering column in my line of sight.

Hopefully i will have enough time on the weekend to start making a bracket and installing it. Not very keen to lift out the engine to fit the speedo cable.....

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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever" Brian Wilson

I've started building one. At this stage I plan to convert an original speedo to stepper motor drive, probably with an LCD for the odometer. For a start it will get its speed from a hall effect sensor on the driveshaft, once I get that sorted I'll have a go at GPS, which is heaps easier, but more expensive.

I'm not sure what to do for the fuel gauge yet. Maybe a dot matrix graphics display or another stepper motor.

I'm using tiny little instrument stepper motors from the US, with a picaxe microcontroller and an LCD display scrounged from some broken equipment. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

If you have a screw-on speedo cable (at the speedo end) Acewell have a sensor that fits straight on in place of the speedo. This one:

http://www.electronicamotos.com.ar/products/Acewell-Speed-Sensor-Cable-For-Honda-Ruckus.html

I didn't use it msyelf, as I could not get it working with my VDO speedo. But it should be a bolt-on to your acewell speedo and it's dirt cheap.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

As promised, heres a photo of my set up.



I wired the brown and red wires to the ignition, black to earth. The yellow wire to the -ve coil terminal. I removed the blue wire (fuel sender) as I don't need it.

Here's my placement of the magnet sensor



I epoxied the magnet to the metal part of the cv thingy and made up a 90 degree angle out of 1.5mm aluminium plate I got from bunnings for $2.40.

So far the RPM and speedo seems pretty good. I set the rpm at the .5 setting and the speedo dia at 1546 but haven't checked it with the gps yet. Will post again once I verify the correct figures.

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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever" Brian Wilson

Oh yeah, don't bother buying the cable attachment. It wouldn't fit into my speedo drive thing.

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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever" Brian Wilson

Are both those gauges part of the set up? Or just the speedo?

Seems to be conflicting info about whether or not the drive adapter fits?

I originally bought the Saas tacho but it jumps around a bit, and randomly resets itself to a different colour every now and then. Ive left it there as a cross reference whilst i was sorting out the acewell unit.

The Acewell has a bar tacho and digital numeric rom readout as well as speedo. You can configure it to display elapsed time, odometer and a few other things. Although it is small, I can easily see the info where I have installed it. I bent a piece of aluminum bar and made a bracket to hold it. You can see the ss mounting bolts next to the wndscreen vent if you lok carefully.

The screw on speedo adaptor i bought was the one for a honda and ktm. It does not fit tightly enough into the pinion drive to be accurate.

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"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you'll suck forever" Brian Wilson