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General Category => MG Sports Cars => Topic started by: skootch13 on September 30, 2020, 11:04:09 AM

Title: Calibrating 1973 MGB tachometer
Post by: skootch13 on September 30, 2020, 11:04:09 AM
I have read the article on this site about soldering a potentiometer onto the chip inside the tach.

But the inside of my tach does not look like the one in the article.

i believe the article says to solder on posts 4 and 7 (going from memory.)

My question is, which of the posts on the chip are 4 and 7?  How do you count them?
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Title: Re: Calibrating 1973 MGB tachometer
Post by: skootch13 on September 30, 2020, 07:40:28 PM
Leon reached out on mgexperience and told me that number one is next to the indentation on top of the chip.

Also, the correction on the pins in the article on this site is incorrect.  It is pins 4 and 7 and not 3 and 8.  Here is Leon's page https://leonsmgb.com/tach-4-cylinder-to-8-cylinder-conversion-or-adjustment/

You can clearly see the indentation on the chip and also his leads on pins 4 and 7.
Title: Re: Calibrating 1973 MGB tachometer
Post by: MGBV8 on October 01, 2020, 09:24:03 AM
The confusion with the Figure 1 drawing stems from the capacitor being drawn in the wrong location (pins 3 & 5).  The capacitor actually goes across pins 1 & 7.

http://www.britishv8.org/Articles/MGB-to-V8-Tach-Conversion.htm
Title: Re: Calibrating 1973 MGB tachometer
Post by: skootch13 on October 01, 2020, 01:19:00 PM
https://www.mgexp.com/forum/mg-engine-swaps-forum.40/calibrating-1973-mgb-tachometer.4223333.4223713/page-2#msg-4223713
Title: Re: Calibrating 1973 MGB tachometer
Post by: MGBV8 on October 05, 2020, 09:02:54 AM
This is the corrected version.
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