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please help. stock 280 tach with 6 ls coils


Tim H

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Megasquirt 2 V3.57

L28ET

The stock tach requires a "coil negative" signal. That is, its a signal that switches to ground, and then lifts ground. When it lifts ground, the coil discharges and a large voltage spike is sent down the coil negative wire.

 

You can replicate this coil negative wire in a Coil-on-plug setup by,

 

1) Use 6 diodes on the coil negative lines at each coil all joined together

2) Use the tach output wire on the megasquirt and build a "coil simulator" circuit to replicate the voltage spikes. I've outlined that a little more detailed in the RB forum. (requires a relay coil, transistor, and several resistors.).

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can I just run the diodes off the negative side of each one of my coil packs and then also run a diode coming from my tach wire?

thanks for the help

http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/97071-dash-tach-wire-for-a-1978-280z/?p=913123

 

You will need 6 however. Make sure you know which of the LS wires is the actual coil wire and the signal wire (low current) used for the built in ignitor logic.

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