Equipment Tach. / Hour Meter

[Catskill]

Ever wonder how long it's been since you last changed the oil on your splitter, ATV, chipper or other piece of equipment? Interested in knowing what RPM it's turning? I am, in fact I'm a bit anal about all that sort of stuff. When I bought my splitter the other year I flipped through the manual and noted the the oil and hydraulic fluid change intervals they dictated but the equipment lacked a meter and there was no way of really knowing how much time I was logging on the equipment month to month, year to year. So I bought a Tiny Tach. Here are some pics from the installation (which was incredibility easy). The units have a 5 year battery life and can be had on Ebay for less than MSRP.

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This is the base unit mounted deep in a corner visible during operation but unlikely to be hit by a falling split.

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Here's the cables running across the engine and the white ground running back and attaching to the casing screw

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Here's the positive attached to the spark plug wire

 

[smokinj]

Thats good one to have.When you loan it out you will know whats up!

 

[struggle]

So does it just get the signal from the plug wire (sensor in a round about way on the wire being wrapped)? The battery in the unit provides for itself then?

I would like to do this as well to my splitter.

 

[cmonSTART]

I've installed those on customer machines. They work great.

 

[Catskill]

So does it just get the signal from the plug wire (sensor in a round about way on the wire being wrapped)?

Yup.

The battery in the unit provides for itself then?

Yup.