Taimar Tacho wiring

[Cerberus90]

Just want to check I've got it right, the tacho on the Taimar, has a spade connection and a bullet connection.

I've assumed through internal assumptions that the power in is the spade, and the sense wire to the coil is the bullet.

Is this correct?


Cheers

[phillpot]

If you're wrong so am I




While we're around the dashboard can I ask, do you have a vinyl covered dash? Where your instrument dimmer switch comes through is there some kind of "finisher" to conceal the edge of the vinyl?
Mine has (had, I'm going back to vinyl) an alluminium dash so was easy to get a "clean" hole

[Cerberus90]

Sounds good, , the rest of the dash works, so I'm assuming I've got it right, unfortunately the engine wouldn't fire today, so the rev counter never did anything,


It is a vinyl dash on ours, but I don't think the dimmer was in the dash when we got it, we're not putting it back in either, , so not much help I'm afraid, .


Is it like a toggle switch? With a threaded bit that the dial sticks out of? If so I'm sure you could get some sort of trim finisher for it, although I suppose it's probably an imperial one, so most modern toggle switch stuff probably wouldn't fit.

[phillpot]

This is the little chap, mounted into an off-cut of sill plate alluminiun which is screwed to the back of the dash leaving the rotary knob sticking through. I think the hole is far too small to tuck the vinyl in to get a tidy edge?

Might just leave it out, the dash lights aren't exactly dazzling even on max!

[phillpot]

Just found this one on Ebay, looks to have a much longer thread and the chrome ring would "finish" the hole

[Cerberus90]

Yeah, we had one in the wiring loom, just not bothered with it, just another item to potentially go wrong, as you say, the instrument lights aren't exactly bright, if anything they could probably do with being brighter.

The holes in our dash are still going to be there as we're not re-covering it, so I'm going to have to think of something to stick in them, . Think a fan switch will be in one hole, others have been put in by previous owners.