[Farmall] Tachometer

Robert L. Holtzer rholtzer at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 20 22:14:00 PST 2004


Thanks for the response.  Will take a look at the local Harbor Freight.

Bob Holtzer


At 04:46 PM 12/20/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>I don't know if this is what you guys' are looking for or not. I bought a
>digital photo tachometer this summer from harbor freight. You put a piece of
>reflective tape on a rotating object and it reads the RPM off of that. It
>worked real well for checking the RPM's on our Case 500 diesel. It's not as
>robust as the one we use at work for checking shaft speed on our ships we
>build, but I compared  the harbor freight one to the better one and it read
>the same.
>     I paid $59.99 for it on sale but it still lists it at 69.99. The item #
>is 41727-1VGA. Hope this helps.
>
>Jeff D  N.E. Wis.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "E. John Puckett" <ejpuckett at centurytel.net>
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>Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:47 AM
>Subject: Re: [Farmall] Tachometer
>
>
> > I've been looking for something similar, but everything I've found ran in
>the
> > $75 to $150 range.  Does it give a reading of the number of times the prop
>blade
> > passes, or is their a scale that changes the counts to rpm.  might have to
>do a
> > little calculation to get rpm from a tractor engine.
> >
> > Robert L. Holtzer wrote:
> > >  From time to time there has been discussion of setting engine idle,
> > > etc.  Recently in a model airplane shop I saw a $25 tachometer that had
> > > an RPM range of 0 to 30,000.  It detected RPM from the propeller --
> > > apparently something akin to a strobe.  It would probably work off a
> > > painted mark on a crank pulley.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any experience with this type of equipment?
> > >
> > > Bob Holtzer
> > >
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