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Re: Spitfire electric tach

To: "Rob Christopher \(robc\)" <robc@cisco.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Spitfire electric tach
From: "KEVIN KEALTY" <kkealty@rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:18:20 -0400
Hi Rob.

Sorry, I meant to stop by yesterday and completely forgot about it.
We can pull the tach and check the capacitor.  I wonder if Doc has a spare 
TR6 tach - it won't read correct but it will tell us that all the 
connections are ok.

Kevin
62 TR3B  TCF894L


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Christopher (robc)" <robc@cisco.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:12 AM
Subject: Spitfire electric tach


> Hey everyone,
>
>
> The tach, though has me stumped.  It is an electric tach and when the
> key is turned to the on position, it pegs itself all the way to the
> right, past the red line, even though the engine is not running.  If I
> remove the white/slate wire connected from the coil to it, it still
> stays pegged.  The green wire has 12V or so on it so that is fine.  The
> ground wire that should be under the thumb wheel on the back was
> missing, but the case of the tach is grounded through the light socket's
> black wire.  I used a DVM to check all of this.
>
> So, anyone have any advice, other than it is just plain screwed and
> needs to be replaced?
>
> Rob
> 74.5 TR6  CF28217UO
> Delving into the world of Spitfires for the first time....


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