BX2200 Tachometer

[woodstock]

Motor shmotor,, w're straying from the thread.
I've been researching diesel tachs and apparantly they can be activated off the alternator if it has a "W" terminal which sends a pulse to the tach, which turns it into a rpm indicator once correctly calibrated.

http://www.autometer.com/hp/2001_catalog/street/7.html
My Bozillas gets parted at our property (future retirement home site) so I can't just run out and take a look.
Anyone got a "W" terminal on their alternator?

Winnipeg, Manitoba

2001 BX2200 All Kubota FEL, Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)
1984 JD 316 after 687 hrs.

 

[woodstock]

glennmac,
Blame it on the Canadians. Gotta blame someone for this mix up.

Wasn't the first mechanical transportation vehicle, not powered by man or beast, the steam Engine (rail version). then the steam automobile.
Probable this is where they started calling it a motor, motor vehicle, motor oil, etc.
Bird I think they're half right. If you count the compressor as the power source it is an engine, but by itself the tool is a motor it take the engine produced air and the air motor translate that into rotation. The compressor could be electric motor or gas engine driven.
I'm getting a HEAD ACHE.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

2001 BX2200 All Kubota FEL, Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)
1984 JD 316 after 687 hrs.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

There are aftermarket tachometers available for diesel applications in which the installation is as simple as epoxying a tiny magnet to a harmonic balancer or in the case of the BX on the flywheel and a small trigger pickup on a bracket so it points to the magnet as it passes by. I installed several of these on early eighties diesel pickups before tachometers became standard equipment. They worked quite well and didn't require any calibration since it was reading the rotating mass directly. I'm not too sure of the manufacturer but I think Isspro had one and possibly VDO. They should be available through a truck and fleet parts supply house.

 

[Rch]

Sooo, all these years it should have been "General Engines"!


RCH

 

[woodstock]

Blame the French

In 1769 French Army officer Captain Nicolas Joseph Cugnot built what has been called the first automobile. Cugnot's three-wheeled, steam-powered vehicle carried four persons.
In 1804 American inventor Oliver Evans built a steam-powered vehicle in Chicago, Illinois.
Most famous was the Stanley Steamer, built by American twin brothers Freelan and Francis Stanley. A Stanley Steamer established a world land speed record in 1906 of 205.44 km/h (121.573 mph). Manufacturers produced about 125 models of steam-powered automobiles, including the Stanley, until 1932.
In 1860 French inventor Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir patented a one-cylinder engine that used kerosene for fuel. Two years later, a vehicle powered by Lenoir's engine reached a top speed of about 6.4 km/h (about 4 mph). In 1864 Austrian inventor Siegfried Marcus built and drove a carriage propelled by a two-cylinder gasoline engine. American George Brayton patented an internal-combustion engine that was displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1876 German engineer Nikolaus August Otto built a four-stroke gas engine, the most direct ancestor to today's automobile engines.
In 1893 American industrialist Henry Ford built an internal-combustion engine from plans he saw in a magazine. In 1896 he used an engine to power a vehicle mounted on bicycle wheels and steered by a tiller.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

2001 BX2200 All Kubota FEL, Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)
1984 JD 316 after 687 hrs.

 

[JOR_EL]

Woodstock,

[[[Wasn't the first mechanical transportation vehicle, not powered by man or beast, the steam Engine (rail version). then the steam automobile.]]]

Maybe you should say "wheeled" transportation vehicle, if you're going to so rudely ignore the sailboat! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

(or did the first Euro-Canadians "steam" over?)

Larry

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Jor El,

Actually, all the pictures and paintings I've seen of the old time "Euro-Canadians" show them paddling canoes. I thought THAT'S how they got there. Now you tell me they came on sail boats? I figured they just had real good upper body development /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif. Maybe even invented the rubber life raft to make the paddling easier.

SHF

 

[JOR_EL]

SHF,

Have you ever paddled a rubber liferaft? /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

You'll jump back into a canoe in a HURRY! /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif (...or better yet, a kayak!)

Larry

 

[patrickg]

Oh yes they do, but they are electric.

 

[JOR_EL]

Same principle is used on bicycle speedos. As long as you know the gear-ratios between the engine and the attachment point, you're in! Most can be adjusted within a range of ratios, to give the desired readout.

Might have to do a mental .1 reduction or something, to use one of these on a diesel, ...could be cheap, though!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Larry