hi, i just bought a new autoguage tacho, i have no idea how to wire it in. its got 6 wires, 2 red 2 black a green and an orange, anyone wanna tell me how to do it??? i want it in asap!

cheers
sean

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Potato

hmmm on mine its

green - side coil
red power
black earth
white lights or power

sounds like u have the one where u have to cut some wires to make it a 4clder one?? i heard that somewhere... anyone???

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yer this one is new, although it has the switch for 4 6 and 8 cylinder cars....

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Potato

Make sure you get a good connection on those wires. Or you end up with a tacho that goes up and down by 200 rpm when the indicators flash. The white wire should just be connected to your lights (parkers) so that the light in the tacho isn't on all the time. There's nothing wrong with it, It's just another one of those things that shits me.

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read the instructions you dolt
makka

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instrucions show half the wires and are written in some asian jibberish, u dolt!

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Its a recipe in cantonese. For fried rice.

hey dont snap back at your teachers

maks give 'im a clip behind the ears wontcha

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so.. does it go up to 10,000 rpm?

As a general rule for all tachos, Red is B+, wired to the 12v for your ignition. Black is ground, Green goes to the Negative side of your ignition coil, and white is wired to the 12v supply for your lights, so the tacho light comes on with your lights. So it sounds like it has a cyl switch??? Just the autometer tachos dont have a switch but a series of wires that have to be cut in a particular order according to how many cylinders....

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got to be the first time i seen it used ever? since i used to pluck random not commpn words out for my english essays a year or 2 back

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nice word

Well learn asian.
and then you will be able to communicate with the majority of the same type of people? you understand

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would you like boil lie with that tacho ....... or salsa
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here are the wires, i had a go at it yesterday but i couldnt get it right., the orange one, one of the black ones, and one of the red wires are shrter then the other 3, i duno if that has anything to do with it??? it does have the switch for 4,6 and 8 cylinders, so im guessing all wires have to be connected?

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I don't know what colours they are or anything but what I think based of the smiths one I got working on my mini is that the wires are probably:

1 power
1 earth
1 positive signal from dizzy
1 negative signal from dizzy
1 power for connecting up the little light that lights up the tacho when your headlights are on
the other wire I don't know about

Is there any other stuff like shift lights etc one or more of the wires could be to connect up this sort of parafinalia

what I would do being very careful not the disturb things too much is I would take the tacho apart. The first thing I would look for is the earth(s) these will tend to be connected to screws or other similar earth points.

OK so mark your earths

I would then try to sort out which one is the primary power the wire is probably a similar length and guage to the earth it is also probably red. (earth is black)

I would then try to find the globe that illuminates your tacho when the interior lights are on this funnily enough will be connected to a globe somewhere, chances are the globe will be somewhere where you can get to it incase you have to change it. The other side comming from the globe is going to be an earth so it may help if you try to trace it back to the earth you recognised earlier to confirm or deny this.

OK that has all bar 2 or 3 named two(I think) of the other wires are going to be for the signal coming from the dizzy and returning to the dizzy (the other option is it could use just one of these signal wires but as you seem to have too many wires I am guessing there are two signal wires)

The other wire that is left? well I don't know it maybe a seperate earth for the illumination globe that we identified earlier

So saying I am not an auto electrician(I just try stuff) and if you try something and blow up or stuff your tacho bad luck I am just suggesting stuff cause you didn't seem to be getting too far with it.

Well that's my bit of 2 cents

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