installing a tach on my g-16 and need a little help.

[kwh3rd]

I just picked up a tach at harbor freight and it says that I hook one of the wires to the negative side of the ignition coil. I have a 1999 g-16 and was wondering where I should hook this wire to.thanks.

[Mike Mac]

Are you sure the tach is for a single cylinder? The ones I saw were for 4 to 8 cyl.

[Flintrock]

You need to have an inductive pick up on the tach for a plug wire, obviously you do not have a coil on that motor.

[SwampFox]

All you have on that engine is a pulser coil. Single cylinder not a "normal" coil. What you get was a car or small engine tach. As Flintrock said you need an inductive tach that picks up electrical pulses from the spark plug wire. Most of them have a pickup that wraps around the spark plug wire. Do a search for Tiny Tach. or just go here; http://www.tinytach.com/tinytach/gasoline.php Yamaha also has a model they sell.

[kwh3rd]

this is what I got with it.

[SwampFox]

Won't work on your cart, that's for a conventional ignition system as found in old cars.

[Flintrock]

Equus makes two dial face models that are "programmable" for the number of cylinders on the motor and have the inductive pickup.

[sho305]

Originally Posted by Flintrock

Equus makes two dial face models that are "programmable" for the number of cylinders on the motor and have the inductive pickup.

Is there two? I was on their site and it read like all their tachs will run the inductive pickup? On amazon it was only like $50 for both, the ones at summit/etc are more.

[kwh3rd]

thanks guys I will have to return the one at harbor freight and get one of the equus ones. I looked at the sunpro tach's and although they say that all theirs are inductive pick up I went ahead and downloaded the pdf manual and found out that you would still need to buy a dsi adapter.I am glad I didnt make that mistake. Thanks again.

[Flintrock]

Originally Posted by sho305

Is there two? I was on their site and it read like all their tachs will run the inductive pickup? On amazon it was only like $50 for both, the ones at summit/etc are more.

Last I checked their 8000 series were inductive AND programmable to one, two, four cylinders etc. 8068 and the 10k 8080. The 8080 is cool if you can find at a decent price......