I can make the pointer to move up to around 7 (it starts at 6k rpm) with kilohertz signals. At 166 Hz (10 000 rpm) it just barely moves. I have tried some 8 to 12 vpp and it seems to react more to which wavetype sq/tr,st etc.
I wonder what it counts and how. What affects the coil so the pointer moves up?
Well we wired it up in the garage and made some throttlemoves but nothing happened, so we assumed it might either be broken or wrongly wired. But since it starts at 6 k maybe we didnt rev it enough. No mufflers in a villa garage exactly dont call for crazy rev gazzing. So I braught it home to look at it.
On the picture and in the previous text one can figure out that pin 1 shall be connected to the breaker. A breaker has constant 12 VDC from battery via primary ignition coil that collapses when the breaker looses contact with ground which causes the HV spike on the secondary coil to ignite the plug.
To me this must mean that the Kröber somehow is fed with something like a 80-90 % +12 VDC and 10-20 % 0 VDC in a rectangle wave? It looks like it have a circuit that starts with a 68 ohm resistor, then a rect diode, maybe for polarity protection, then I see one leg to a BCY58 etc. Maybe I have to rip it out...
Id like to try to create that signal in my gen, have to read the manual. Gotta offset the signal so it dont go to minus but start at 0 and goes to +12 V.
On the picture and in the previous text one can figure out that pin 1 shall be connected to the breaker. A breaker has constant 12 VDC from battery via primary ignition coil that collapses when the breaker looses contact with ground which causes the HV spike on the secondary coil to ignite the plug.
To me this must mean that the Kröber somehow is fed with something like a 80-90 % +12 VDC and 10-20 % 0 VDC in a rectangle wave? It looks like it have a circuit that starts with a 68 ohm resistor, then a rect diode, maybe for polarity protection, then I see one leg to a BCY58 etc. Maybe I have to rip it out...
Id like to try to create that signal in my gen, have to read the manual. Gotta offset the signal so it dont go to minus but start at 0 and goes to +12 V.
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Strange. It seems to show about 1 rev per 2 turns. I guess, since I have 2 breakers and coils take the signal from both and tie them to one with rectifier diodes. Whatyathink?
Heres some simplified schemas over regular 2 coil ignition. One coil fires cyl 1 and 4 and the other fires 2 and 3. They fire both at compression and exhaust cycle.
I guess I was wrong before stating that the signal is 80% 12 V and 20% 0V in squarewave. It would be 12 V during breaker open short period and 0 V at breaker closed long period.
Since they open 180 degrees off phase to eachother I would get twice the amount of 12 V signals as when taken from only one breaker, wouldnt you say? Then I have to reverse block them with diodes otherwise they will fire for eachother.
Could that be a plan?
I guess I was wrong before stating that the signal is 80% 12 V and 20% 0V in squarewave. It would be 12 V during breaker open short period and 0 V at breaker closed long period.
Since they open 180 degrees off phase to eachother I would get twice the amount of 12 V signals as when taken from only one breaker, wouldnt you say? Then I have to reverse block them with diodes otherwise they will fire for eachother.
Could that be a plan?
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One of the things that stole my time so much from diy'ing audio. (I have an itch to dig into audio again 
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It was a badly neglected '90 300zx. The entire job was DIY except the windshield install and welding of the cast ally oil pan. There was no 'Kit' involved. It has a self built GM 5.3L with high compression and corvette camshaft. Using stock Nissan 5-sp gearbox with custom flywheel and clutch parts from .. Isuzu
Engine is managed with microsquirt. Suspension is simple Tein springs w/ KYBs. All the gauges work like factory and you can hop in, turn the key and go with no trouble.
Has some tunes too...
Not a big dollar build - mostly enormous labor and scraps... but I'm proud of the result.
)It was a badly neglected '90 300zx. The entire job was DIY except the windshield install and welding of the cast ally oil pan. There was no 'Kit' involved. It has a self built GM 5.3L with high compression and corvette camshaft. Using stock Nissan 5-sp gearbox with custom flywheel and clutch parts from .. Isuzu
Engine is managed with microsquirt. Suspension is simple Tein springs w/ KYBs. All the gauges work like factory and you can hop in, turn the key and go with no trouble.
Has some tunes too...
Not a big dollar build - mostly enormous labor and scraps... but I'm proud of the result.
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