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[CilverSeliST205]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SILVER-BLUE...609165518QQrdZ1

Above link sends you to a product called universal 3a racing shift light, which is not so universal since it needs a aftermarket 3a racing tach to work, but the seller "forgot" to mention it...

anyways, i ended up paying $25 for a aluminium tube with 4 led in it Can not return the product so i got to make it work.. here is how i want to do it:

OEM tach gets an input voltage corresponding to the rpms(please correct me if im wrong) if i run a variable resistor from that input to the base of a transistor that would switch 9V to the LEDs, then I will start the car and set the resistance to the low end and rev the car up i will get enough current to the base of the transistor to switch on the LEDs in shiftlight somewhere in low rpm range... then with increasing resistance i will get the LEDs to go on later in rpm range, and that is how i am going to adjust.

Am i going to make the tach read unaccuratley? Does tach input wire uses voltage as the only reference to rpms? Is this going to work at all? Thanks for reading/responses!

[97lestyousay]

Good info here:
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...&hl=shift+light