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t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:30 pm
by soulboy
cause I cant get it to work anyone else had this problem cheers

Re: t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:44 pm
by goldeneye
only about 10,000 others! the early digital ones f@@ked up at the drop of a hat, the analogue ones dint last that well either. apart from cleaning connections, it used to be a full speedo swap to cure it, unless its been worked round . not cheap to replace speedo either..... 30 years old next year some of them!

Re: t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:29 pm
by Herman
Can only echo what Goldeneye says. I've had around ten over the past three or four years and Ive not had a rev counter that works.
You'll be lucky to get a working rev counter and I've not heard of one being repaired. I know a few people who have had auto electricians try to fix them by messing around with the circuitry and changing diodes, but without success.
I reckon that if anyone is able to repair them, they would be onto a little goldmine.

Re: t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:44 am
by chrisM
On a very lucky day mine does work ... for some time.

I have a friend who claims his rev counter is working without problems at all ... his T 5 hasn't left the garage in the last 5 years or so ;) .

Re: t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:42 pm
by soulboy
cheers fellas this is the 1st one ive had that don't work ;)

Re: t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:17 pm
by acko
My old T5 used to have a working rev counter.
This one on my current scooter doesn't work.
I have a spare speedo unit that the rev counter does work on but that's being kept back in reserve.

Re: t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 6:55 pm
by smiffy1968
I must be lucky then. Got an '87 mk1 and the digi tacho works a treat. I've had an analogue one start smoking whilst riding then pack up. Everyone took the p155 when i told them. Then about a year later someone else had the same problem.

Re: t5 mk 1 rev counter help

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:08 pm
by soulboy
don't like the digi ones at all I was told it could be a bad earth