[s-cars] ECU pin-out for tacho.

Tony Guttmann T.Guttmann at ms.unimelb.edu.au
Thu Oct 27 16:50:22 EDT 2005


Dear Kevin,

Thanks--you are right. But there is a corresponding output from
the MOTEC, and it needs to go to the corresponding terminal on
the plug that plugged into the Motronic, and now plugs into the
MOTEC. My question is still whether pin 40 is correct as the pin
providing this signal.

Tony
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:19:02PM -0400, Kevin Day wrote:
> I believe that signal is an output from the Motronic ECU, not an input
> to it.  It goes to the instrument cluster and maybe elsewhere.
> So if you have no Motronic you'll have no signal there.
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:57:49AM +1000, Tony Guttmann wrote:
> > Scott Mockery's excellent site gives the ECU pin-out for S-cars, showing
> > the tachometer signal given at pin 40. As I'm having trouble picking
> > up a tacho. signal from that pin, I'm wondering if anyone can provide
> > independent confirmation of that fact, or, in the unlikely event that it's
> > another pin, what is it?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Tony Guttmann
> > (in throes of a MOTEC installation)


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