Adding tach with shift light

[Chrisdel2001]

I have an 01 blaster and I want to add a tach with shift light, I don't want a tiny tach! I've heard that you can wrap one of the wires around the spark plug cap and just ground it and it'll work but I don't want to order the tach without confirming it. As far as the lights on the tach I was just going to hook up to the head lights so it turns on when I turn on the switch. Would this tach work?? http://m.ebay.com/itm/361029642273?nav=SEARCH

 

[Jimmer]

Trust me on this one. http://www.trailtech.net/digital-gauges/vapor $89 on amazon.com Your welcome!

 

[Herpderplol]

I have an 01 blaster and I want to add a tach with shift light, I don't want a tiny tach! I've heard that you can wrap one of the wires around the spark plug cap and just ground it and it'll work but I don't want to order the tach without confirming it. As far as the lights on the tach I was just going to hook up to the head lights so it turns on when I turn on the switch. Would this tach work?? http://m.ebay.com/itm/361029642273?nav=SEARCH

you will probably go over 8k rpms with a 2-stroke atv!

why a shift light? seriously though

Trust me on this one. http://www.trailtech.net/digital-gauges/vapor $89 on amazon.com Your welcome!

have you had one? they are nice. although i had trouble finding a decent place to mount it... i had fat bars so it was a pain

 

[Jimmer]

I do have one,and my brother has one. They come with 7/8" and fat bar adapters.

 

[Chrisdel2001]

you will probably go over 8k rpms with a 2-stroke atv!

why a shift light? seriously though


have you had one? they are nice. although i had trouble finding a decent place to mount it... i had fat bars so it was a pain

Honestly it's just for looks I just want a a real tach I am totally against electronic tachs even though they work good with a big lag I'm a fan of the needle and the shift light to look even more bad ass. All I'm asking is if it'll work with that set up. I've seen the trail tech before and I'm not a fan of it

 

[Jimmer]

You'd be a fan if you had one. Bar graph and digital readouts.I'd think if F1 and Top Fuel drivers can read this style it should be ok for us peons. You can add the cylinder head temp for $24. If your tach is chinese manufactured it will not hold up.

 

[Chrisdel2001]

You'd be a fan if you had one. Bar graph and digital readouts.I'd think if F1 and Top Fuel drivers can read this style it should be ok for us peons. You can add the cylinder head temp for $24. If your tach is chinese manufactured it will not hold up.

This video is a guy installing on 4 stroke with a battery so he can put the positive and negative to the battery. In my case I was going to put the positive to the positive on the head light and the negative to either the frame or the negative on the lights and the same set up as him for the green and white wire

 

[Bluesman]

WOW! The guy that made that video is an absolute idiot. BTW, there's no way his tach is reading correctly.

Even if you could somehow get that tach to read correctly on a single cylinder 2 stroke (which I doubt you can), you would need to do a DC conversion and install a battery. The Blaster charging system is AC. Not gonna work.

 

[Chrisdel2001]

WOW! The guy that made that video is an absolute idiot. BTW, there's no way his tach is reading correctly.

Even if you could somehow get that tach to read correctly on a single cylinder 2 stroke, you would need to do a DC conversion and install a battery. The Blaster charging system is AC. Not gonna work.

LMAO alright thanks man, I'll prob do the ac to dc because the rectifier and battery are only 100 bucks

 

[Bluesman]

So, you've done your research and know you need to float the ground on the charging coil on the stator, right?

 

[Chrisdel2001]

So, you've done your research and know you need to float the ground on the charging coil on the stator, right?

Yea I've already done all the dc conversion research I was just hoping there was a simpler way

 

[Herpderplol]

Well most vehicles and atvs are different.

a car tach will probably read wrong on the atv

with the trailtech, because they are universal (mostly) there are different settings. .5, 1, and 2. when i first installed mine i had no idea what it meant. later i figured out that it had to do with the amount of sparks per actual firing of gas in the cylinder. with the blaster it had to be set on .5. a normal 4-stroke atv would be 1 or 2 im not sure. either way, you are going to have trouble with actually making it read correctly with a cheap ebay tach

 

[Chrisdel2001]

Well most vehicles and atvs are different.

a car tach will probably read wrong on the atv

with the trailtech, because they are universal (mostly) there are different settings. .5, 1, and 2. when i first installed mine i had no idea what it meant. later i figured out that it had to do with the amount of sparks per actual firing of gas in the cylinder. with the blaster it had to be set on .5. a normal 4-stroke atv would be 1 or 2 im not sure. either way, you are going to have trouble with actually making it read correctly with a cheap ebay tach

Thanks for the info I guess I have no choice other than crossing over to the dark side of digital tachs

 

[Herpderplol]

Thanks for the info I guess I have no choice other than crossing over to the dark side of digital tachs

not saying you cant make it work or even find the right tach. just pretty uncommon.

i suggest buying a vapor from their website. the $10 is piece of mind knowing you can get anything from them
hell i got an extra magnetic bolt because mine "didnt come with one" when i really snapped it haha

 

[Chrisdel2001]

not saying you cant make it work or even find the right tach. just pretty uncommon.

i suggest buying a vapor from their website. the $10 is piece of mind knowing you can get anything from them
hell i got an extra magnetic bolt because mine "didnt come with one" when i really snapped it haha

Honestly the whole reason I'm putting it was for looks so when the power band it you see the rpms jump and the shift light would just look bad ass lmao

 

[Herpderplol]

Honestly the whole reason I'm putting it was for looks so when the power band it you see the rpms jump and the shift light would just look bad ass lmao

i dont think anyone would ever see the liht except the rider.

and depending on how you ride, can change the rpm you shift at by a lot!
example high rpm: me riding in the road drifting dry tar - shift very high rpm
example low rpm: me riding away from the guy threatening to call the fuzz. (i wouldnt have stopped but i slid and almost flipped and it died)

 

[Chrisdel2001]

i dont think anyone would ever see the liht except the rider.

and depending on how you ride, can change the rpm you shift at by a lot!
example high rpm: me riding in the road drifting dry tar - shift very high rpm
example low rpm: me riding away from the guy threatening to call the fuzz. (i wouldnt have stopped but i slid and almost flipped and it died)

Lmfaoo!! that made my night honestly

 

[speedyslyder]

not to rain on your parade
but i dont like shift lights on cars ect
i will shift when im ready
starring at that thing while i hit a tree or pedestrian lol

 

[Chrisdel2001]

not to rain on your parade
but i dont like shift lights on cars ect
i will shift when im ready
starring at that thing while i hit a tree or pedestrian lol

Haha I like the way you think

 

[speedyslyder]

it maybe fun and cool but a distraction