tach wires - question on hook up

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I am mounting a stock polaris tach to my handle bars so i have the tach when running without the hood.

I have two yellow wires coming up to the handlebars. It is my understanding that I can tap the yellow wire from the tach into either one of the yellow wires coming up to the handlebars and then tap the brown wire from the tach into the brown wire coming up to the handlebars. Is this correct?

Also I am not totally clear on which wires from the tach i use. I beleive I ignore the ones that go into the black rubber moldings at the top and bottom of the tach and I think i use the ones that attach to the middle of the tach with the exposed screw? Is this correct?

Sorry for the poor photo....tried to borrow it from Ebay. Here is the link to the Ebay listing with the higher quality photo of the tach wires.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2001-POLARI...09&_trksid=p4506.m7&item=390394328525&vxp=mtr

 

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tach

wires running to the black plugs are indicator lights. Brake, acc, low oil, etc. Yellow screw is power and brown is ground.

 

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BREAKING NEWS!!

I have a tach that is mounted, and guess what, it even works. Kinda strange that it goes down to 0 if I rev it a bit without the warmers on....dont know what that's all about? Extended the wires by 8 inches and used the butt connectors with the heat shrink wrap and built-in solder and then used these little plastic things that you plug your tach wire into and then it snaps down on the wire you want to tap into....got them at Ace hardware and already cant remember what they are called. A couple small spots on 1 or 2 wires look like a roasted marsh mellow from the heat gun, Never even got to the point of melting the solder sleeve and melting off the shrink wrap which these little fellas are designed for.....not sure how you would do that without toasting the wires. Next time will just use the plain old crimp and heat shrink wrap. Stock throttle cable and brake line just fine and handled the 7 inch riser with no problem.

Anyway, I'm going to call Kurts Polaris here in Missoula and see if they need any help wrenchin'.

Off tomorrow morning with the hoodless turbotater ported twin piped uni filtered 144 04 Escape to Lincoln with some adjustments from last time like 7 inch riser (up from 4), both sratchers, tach and all trailer lights working. Will dial in another 1/4 inch of preload on the front rear spring tomorrow to improve weight transfer. Down the road on the TO DO list is some supplemental cooling and looking to improve on the Edge snow flap. Sled came with the SLP SLT skiis and I actually like them.

Thanks guys.

 

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BREAKING NEWS!!

Kinda strange that it goes down to 0 if I rev it a bit without the warmers on....dont know what that's all about? .


Thanks guys.

A lot of people wire in a resistor in the lighting circuit to act as a load when there is no headlight. It's a 2 ohm 100 watt resistor. You risk burning out your regulator and/or stator without a load. I believe wyofreeride on here used to sell them made up already.