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Originally Posted by Zendalar View Post
I had a broken tach, electrics busted. Removed all of them and found out that the "meter" part is actually a 10mA current meter. I made a prototype from Arduino microcontroller that gets a pulse from from ignition unit and outputs "current" to the tachometer and voila, it works. Just needed some calibration stuff, but now its fine. No more malfunctioning old parts.
Using Arduino, it would be super easy to integrate an RPM dependent shift light LED, as well. Pretty cool.
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