Can I see some pictures of how you secured the two ends of the sensor wire for your hour meter to your spark plug wire? I’m trying to install this Kartech, and the directions show how to secure the display to the spark plug wire, but not how to police up the ends of the senor wire.
Also, how does the sensor wire “talk to” the display? Does the back of the display just pick up current from the sensor wire?
Thank you.
Zip ties…small zip ties.
@Chuck_Goodson ya, but where? Where do I wrap the sensor wire 5 times around the spark plug wire? Can I see pics?
I have mine wrapped 4-5 times around the spark plug wire and then periodically around random spots. Mine leads up to the steering wheel as it also reads rpm. I’m not sure where you’re going to keep the screen but you can always cut the wire.
Also yes, the cable picks up the electromagnetic pulse that passes through the spark plug wire.
Coil the wire tightly around the plug lead 5 or 6 times starting from the hour meter side fold the tail of the wire down and a single cable tie should stop it from coming undone
Can I see how it connects to your data logger?
I’m not using a data logger in using a crappy rpm/hour meter from Amazon. I zip tied the cable on the spark plug wire, wrapped it, and then zip tied it on thr other end. I then attached my hour meter to a solid point on the frame. You can use hardware, Velcro, or some sort of glue. I’ll send s picture in a bit.
Here is my X-30 with an Oppama Engine Hour Meter attached. The cradle is made by Logik which is bolted directly to the motor. The red wire is connected to the meter and the black wire is the RPM sensor connected to the gauge…both held in place with the appropriate clip for the plug lead.
I’m gonna post pics of finished install for y’all to critique when I get time to work on it again.
I will post a pic of our very rudimentary zip tie mount setup on the KA coil when I get home this evening.
Correct me if i am wrong, but if you have the meter attached to the spark plug wire, you dont need the wire from the meter wrapped around the plug wire.
The wire is for ‘remote’ locating the meter away from the motor.
You might be onto something but you do need to wrap the wire about 4 times around the spark plug cable to get a good reading. Haven’t tried so I’m not sure. This does raise a question for me though, does keeping the hour meter on the spark plug wire mess with the reading if you have your wire already wrapped around the spark plug cable?
Signal should be pretty solid if the hour meter is attached to the ignition wire.
If you elect to use a wire instead, there’s usually a small loop on the meter for the wire to pass through. It works through inductance, so once that loop gets a sufficient pulse it will register. That can come from a wrapped wire, or by putting the timer on the HT wire.
How am I looking guys? I didn’t strap tie the hour meter to the spark plug wire or police up the ends of the sensor wire yet because I want to run this by y’all first. What you think about how I passed the sensor wire through the small plastic holes on the hour meter? I’m pretty sure those holes are for the little strap ties that come with the kit. I’m gonna check the directions. Does the sensor wire need to touch the hour meter or is it just there to connect to the MyChron?
Thank you.
