Tachometer

[Jparkes43 329]

Hello I have a Wheel-Horse 227-5 with the 17hp kawasaki single cylinder engine and was interested in putting a tachometer on it (just because i won't too) but i need a step by step guide as I'm not sure what exactly i need to do, also if anyone could advise on a good tach to use that would help a lot, while I'm at i thought that i might put a oil pressure/temperature gauge on it.

 

thank you

 

James  

 

[wheeledhorseman 573]

Hi James  to RS and good to have another Euro member aboard.

 

Check out this thread

 

The Kawasaki in the 227-5 has electronic ignition - a little module mounted on the outside of the engine tinwork replaces the points in older engines. There's no 'coil' it's a magneto type ignition. Not sure how the tacho mentioned will work with this but it's rare to find a tacho like this that will actually operate on a single cylinder engine.

 

I guess it's a matter of checking with the supplier re the electronic magneto ignition bit.

 

Hope this helps you a bit.

 

Andy

 

p.s. don't forget to intorduce yourself in the Euro tractor section - lots of friendly helpful guys both sides of the pond.

Edited January 19, 2014 by wheeledhorseman

[Jparkes43 329]

Thanks for the reply

 

is the little module silver?, i will say hi in the euro section 

[wheeledhorseman 573]

Sounds like you've found it but to be certain it looks like this.

 

 

It basically replaces traditional points hence it's earthed through the case and the other wire goes to the primary coil of the magneto under the flywheel. So if a tacho like the one in the other thread is happy with this type of ignition then my guess would be that it would take the pulse from this wire.

 

For possible future reference - Kawasaki used two different trigger modules on their range of mower engines. They are distiguishable by the spade connector either being on the right or on the left and are not interchangeable (I guess the timing is different). The Kawaski part is expensive but I got the OEM product by Bosch from an ebayer in Thailand for a fraction of the cost.

 

Keep us posted on progress with the tacho and any other products suitable for a single cylinder ignition system you come across.

 

Hope this is useful.

 

Andy

[Jparkes43 329]

Yes that is exactly what i was thinking of!

 

so would i just tap into the black wire with the right taco gauge input wire 

[Jparkes43 329]

Ok I found one I think will work on eBay, what do you think

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290927800294?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D290927800294%26_rdc%3D1

James

[meadowfield 2,545]

These tachs only work with 4,6,8 cylinder engines so it will read wrong.

One and two cylinder tachs are hard to come by, I started looking at modifying my own. There's a thread somewhere, still need to finalise it....

[Jparkes43 329]

oh ok i will continue to look

[meadowfield 2,545]

You can buy cheap digital that will work on 1,2,4,6,8....

[Coadster32 793]

You can buy cheap digital that will work on 1,2,4,6,8....

 

Could you post a link to this??

[meadowfield 2,545]

Look up digital tachometer on that auction site.

Around 10-15 bucks, sensor wire wraps around spark plug cable...