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Old 05-25-2001, 01:29 AM
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I was able to acquire a tachometer/clock for a W123 280E. How does the wiring of these things go? There are three terminals on the tach itself. One is marked with a + (+12V I assume), the center pin is grounded to the tach's body, and another one marked with a W-.

Any ideas? I tried hooking up the + terminal to a 12V source and the W- terminal to the negative side of the coil. Nothing.

However, when the center terminal is hooked up the negative side of the coil, and the W- terminal is not hooked-up, the tach works (although a few hundred rpms low).

My wiring doesn't seem right. Anyone?

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Old 05-25-2001, 02:26 PM
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I am experiencing a similar problem with my 240D. Apparently the sensor comes off of the fly wheel (or somewhere around there). The feedback that I received was that if the car is not designed for it is is difficult to add it.

I am interested to see if you receive other feedback.
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Old 05-27-2001, 11:14 AM
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john, ..try removing and cleaning the sensor located in the transmission. Minor dirt can give you false reading in the tach.....I heard that there's a good MB techs in Makati.

Will you let me know....
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Old 06-05-2001, 10:13 PM
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Got it to work.

First off, I believe the tach on a Diesel engined car is different from a Gasoline engine. The 240D has a mechanical tach and there is a tach sending unit somewhere in the engine (not sure where, or what it is -- I haven't worked with diesels).

I haven't heard of the sensor on the transmission before. Could it be possibly for the ABS to measure road speed?

Anyway -- here's the fix. I connected the terminal on the tach clearly marked with a + to the negative side of the coil. The terminal on the tach marked with a -, was connected to the positive side of the coil. Huzzah! It now works. I figured this out by accident, BTW.

Why? I do not know... my first thought was that my coil was wired backwards -- but using a voltmeter, there is 12V+ on the positive side of the coil. So its wired correctly.

So there it is, its either I got a tampered/repaired tach and the terminals were soldered in reverse, or that really how MB/VDO did it -- to confuse the general public???

Oh BTW, the tach I got was for a 4-cylinder engine, so the tach read a bit high when used in my 250T. So I installed in my 4-cyl 230TE -- works just dandy.

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