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I just put on my new trail tech speedometer. For some reason it is not working right. When I hook it up directly to the battery on the buggie the tachometer stoped working. The tachometer works fine when it running off the battery in the computer only and as long as both wires are wriped around the plug wire. When I hooked up the tachometer and wraped one wire around the plugwire and the other to ground it did not work. When I unhooked the ground wire it started working again. It dose the same thing when it is hooked to the buggies battery. Is their any body out there that has installed one of these vapor speedometers that could tell whats wrong. I bought it from blade. I called blade and talked to a women yesterday. She said someone would call me back. They did'nt so I sent an e-mail and got no responds. I call again today and left a message. I really wanted to get it working this weekend so me and my little girl could go riding.
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Sounds strange. I would recheck all the wiring. Perhaps you've reversed the polarity of the tach sensor. When I installed mine I connected to the coil and ground. I've had problems with wrapping the wire around the plug wire w/ other tachs. You can always call tech support at trail tech. You'll get your best answer there.
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05 Jehm Adventure Buggy 250cc, Torque Spring, 22.5gr Rollers, Modified Roll Cage, K&N, 21x7x10 & 22x11x10 Trac Star Radials, Vapor, Body Panels, 40T Spkt
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2003 Jehm Blazer 125cc, Vapor
10 gram rollers, 20x10x8 Razr's,
34 tooth sprocket, 9pk cooler
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I did call trail tech. They had no idea either. I checked all the wireing several times. The back light will not stay on ether. I have to keep pushing the right botton. It goes off after about 3 sec. with or with being hooked to the buggies battery. It dose not make any sense. I might be sending it back to trail tech.
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the black light is supposed to go off if its not off the buggies battery.
Red wire wraps around the spark plug wire, other one just goes to a ground, anywhere except the battery.
I wired my blacklight right to the battery, red to pos white to neg.
make sure your not putting the tach wires to the battery and the battery wires around the coil, and make sure the plugs arent mixed up. I believe they both fit into each other.
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'04 Manco 906c
BLADE DX GT! work in progress
04 DTR Mercury Marauder
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| offroadkarter wrote: |
the black light is supposed to go off if its not off the buggies battery.
Red wire wraps around the spark plug wire, other one just goes to a ground, anywhere except the battery.
I wired my blacklight right to the battery, red to pos white to neg.
make sure your not putting the tach wires to the battery and the battery wires around the coil, and make sure the plugs arent mixed up. I believe they both fit into each other. |
Sounds like you hooked yours up yourself. I can't belive they use the same color wire for two different functions. Something like a red-wire is even worse. Red is typically the postive (+) side of supplied power.
I saw a recent electrical drawing that had green as one power lead and black as another. A red wire went to a common ground.
That's just not right... Unless the guy who developed it is of the opinion that it's not the electrons that flow in electricity, it's the holes they evacuate that are transporting the power. Hole-flow v Electron-flow.
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Chris Dierkens
'04 Yerf-Dog 3206 10g Rollers, 1500# Spring, Reverse, SuperTrapp, Uni
'04 KPX Xterro: pumper carb, oil cooling, 10g rollers, Junkies pipe, Uni
'05 Blade 150 DX: 4 Valve head, 10g rollers, East Side pipe, Uni
www.northeastbuggy.com
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You'ed think they would have made the plug for the power and the tach different or at least had different color wire to keep you from hooking them up wrong.
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| sprince wrote: |
| You'ed think they would have made the plug for the power and the tach different or at least had different color wire to keep you from hooking them up wrong. |
They have little tags on it.
TH i had to hack my kit completely apart for it to work, the stock red and white tach wires werent long enough, and the origional power wires burnt up after afew hours.
its a great unit, but since its not a buggy friendly kit its pretty messy to install.
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'04 Manco 906c
BLADE DX GT! work in progress
04 DTR Mercury Marauder
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My only complaint with it is the wires, they are way to flimsy for an off road vehicle. Installation is straight forward, though a bit of a pain in the butt because of having to lengthen the wires. I wouldn't bother with their extension wires. They are to expensive. You'll probably need at least 2 temp sensor extensions and 1 speed sensor cable. That's 30 bucks plus shipping. Seems excessive when teh whole kit is only 100 dollars. Do it yourself w/ 99 cents worth of speaker wire.
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05 Jehm Adventure Buggy 250cc, Torque Spring, 22.5gr Rollers, Modified Roll Cage, K&N, 21x7x10 & 22x11x10 Trac Star Radials, Vapor, Body Panels, 40T Spkt
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2003 Jehm Blazer 125cc, Vapor
10 gram rollers, 20x10x8 Razr's,
34 tooth sprocket, 9pk cooler
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