<VV> weird tach

[Harry Yarnell]

I'd like to know HOW he'd hook up the origional regulator to the alternator 
with the built-in reg.

Harry Yarnell
Perryman garage and orphanage
Perryman, MD
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FrankCB" <frankcb at aol.com>
To: "Arend Huisman" <arendhuismus at xs4all.nl>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> weird tach


> Arend,
>     Having TWO voltage regulators in the car is like having TWO wives to 
> tell you what to do.<GGG>  Remove the original regulator that was designed 
> for the generator and use the internal one that was designed to work with 
> the alternator you now have.  This may solve your tach problem.
>     Regards,
>     Lach alstubieft,
>     Frank "my long-ago girlfriend was Dutch" Burkhard
>
> In a message dated 10/07/08 10:37:03 Eastern Daylight Time, 
> arendhuismus at xs4all.nl writes:
> Hi Guys,
>
> a few weeks ago i posted a question about a bad working tach and after 
> some answers i decided to contact Clarks, who sold me the Spyder dash, 
> where the tach is part of. I immediately got an answer with apologies and 
> a week later i found a new/old tach in the mail, which was checked.
> I have changed them out and this one is better, but still it seems to work 
> like it's a sort of vacuum gauge; if i'm doing 40 miles in 4th gear, and 
> hit the accelerator, it instantly jumps from 2000 to almost 3000 rpm. 
> Looks good, but the car is not equally responsive...(haha)
> BTW i installed an alternator in the car with an internal voltage 
> regulator, but the original regulator is still working in the car too; 
> should this have anything to do with it?
> Any ideas and input are welcome
>
> Arend Huisman (Netherlands)
> '64 Monza vert
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