tachometer signal revisted, LONG

[Tom Nas]

"Richard Hoffman" <billzcat1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Ok I am looking at the insides of the cluster. No visible jumpers on the
>tach, BUT... On the side of the tach in the back, it says
>110. 902/129/12  (VDO P/N)
>12v 258/323Hz  (obviously 12 volt.  258 and 323 are a 4:5 ratio....4 vs 5
>cyl methinks)
>4/5zyl/ 4takt       (obviously 4/5 cylinder (zylinder is german for
>cylinder))  4 takt?  I don't know.

four-stroke.

(snip)

>The other is a 6-position switch, which reads:
>
>Diesel         ,   Benzin (gas)
>RW,US,EG,RW,US,EG
>
>with the switch under "US" on the Benzin side. I think this has more to do
>with the MFA system, but I could be wrong.

That's for the Autocheck. It switches between brake symbol, 'BRAKE LIGHT' 
and 'BREMSLICHT' on startup, for instance. RW must be Rest of World, EG 
could be European Community, US is self-explanatory.

Tom
(who has been mucking about with the type 89 instrument panel way too much)