Portable Tachometer

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  1. karl61

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    I was reading a repair book and they listed a lot of things they thought one should have on hand. A portable tachometer that goes to about 4000 rpm is recommended. I found one web page for 2 and 3 cylinder but none for 4 cylinder and would a portable tachometer for a V4 be the same as a portable tachometer for an inline 4.
     


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    Does your bike have a tach that functions? Theres alot of things I can think of that would be useful for doing various jobs on the bike, but a portable tachometer certainly isn't one of them. Just my two and a half cents. What would you need one for?
     


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    Yes they just go by cyls. The challenge is that simese coils fire twice so you need an adapter to cut the signal in 1/2. Unless you really need it... Well you don't need it.
     


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    There are multimeters that can do rpms.
     


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    ^Good point, my bluepoint meter has an RPM hookup that I think I used once, just to see if it worked.
     


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