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Old 03-13-2008, 09:06 PM
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this guy at my work asked me a question about a tach hes usin he says it has two wires one goes to the tach wire on the distributor and the other goes ?????
im drawing a blank for some reason
p.s. its goin on a 350 chevy motor with hei ign any help would be appreciated
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Old 03-13-2008, 09:20 PM
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tell him the coil that would be a good place to start
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Old 03-13-2008, 09:22 PM
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there are two types of tachs... voltage triggered or current triggered.....voltage is tapped off neg side of coil....current is tapped off positive side...often times tacs will have a internal ground wire too....but usually a tac works off one signal wire that goes to the coil
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this guy at my work asked me a question about a tach hes usin he says it has two wires one goes to the tach wire on the distributor and the other goes ?????
to ground?
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Old 03-14-2008, 08:15 PM
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this guy at my work asked me a question about a tach hes usin he says it has two wires one goes to the tach wire on the distributor and the other goes ?????
to ground?

thats what i thought thanx
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