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05-15-2018, 09:55 PM | #1 |
Crazy Ole Man
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Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
In the past its been discussed lengthening the pick up cable. Today I cut open the cable on my sender unit to see what the mystery was. It's a signal cable like a guitar cable. I bought some instrument cable and will attempt to re make my whole cable only longer. I really like my 8086 and its been on the shelf. I'll keep you posted and pictures when I have something real to post.
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05-15-2018, 10:25 PM | #2 |
VC 460 CLONE GONE WILD
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
If you aren't successful you can just buy a new pick up and cable. But with your talents I feel sure that won't be needed. For others the replacement is called Equus 9995 replacement pick up. I tried cutting one up and adapting it to a Sun pro III.It did not work but it looked more like a small co-axial cable inside to me. I should have tried piecing it together and using it on my 8068 for a test but I never did bother.
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05-16-2018, 12:02 AM | #3 | |
Crazy Ole Man
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
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Your correct in saying co-axial cable. That's what a guitar cable is -- a single wire shielded cable. I found some that's real small stuff for wiring the pickups inside a guitar from Stewart McDonald. |
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05-19-2018, 11:44 AM | #4 |
Vegas modded 420
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
A single rca cable might also work, unless the center wire has some strange resistance or something. Cable tv wire is like that its 50 ohms or whatever.
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05-19-2018, 12:00 PM | #5 |
VC 460 CLONE GONE WILD
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
There are 2 poles on the plug that goes into the tach.
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05-19-2018, 12:10 PM | #6 |
Vegas modded 420
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
I'm sure its shielded wire and the outside is ground, or it would make noise into any radio.....is my guess.
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05-19-2018, 10:21 PM | #7 |
Crazy Ole Man
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
I've got my order from Stewart MaDonald. 25 ft of 26awg braided shield cable. I opened up the cable and the original brown wire is "spiral" wrapped shield single core type. It's the same diameter with a braided shield -- I figured instead of connecting 2 cables together in the middle I would just replace the whole length of wire.
If you look inside of the clamp on pick up you can see the type cable used to connect it. I do miniature soldering a lot so I'll post some pictures tomorrow of the work. |
05-20-2018, 09:15 PM | #8 |
Vegas modded 420
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
Probably easier to replace if you can get the clamp apart. Getting the shield back together without holes can take a little messing around, and depending in what kind if insulator is used.
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05-21-2018, 09:36 AM | #9 |
Crazy Ole Man
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
I was successful soldering a new longer cable for my tachometer pickup. Now I have to test it for complete success. Here are a few pictures of what I did. The first picture is of the braided cable I used. The second picture is of a factory wired pickup - the third is one I soldered -- the fourth is the 2 side by side. The originally cable was spiral wrapped.
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05-31-2018, 09:52 PM | #10 |
Crazy Ole Man
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Re: Equus 8086 Tach Pickup
Well it was a complete flop - no joy. Whatever the reason it didn't work. Luckily I had ordered a new pickup just for this reason. It sure is nice having my big tach back.
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