Instrument pods - Peugeot

[electrokid]

While looking at instruments generally on eBay I came across these - likely to be fine for petrol BXs - red line on rev counter is wrong for diesels.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/peugeot-205-1 ... _880wt_725

and a rare one in white

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/peugeot-205-g ... _918wt_725

[Vanny]

The white is a transfer, you peel off the old stick on dials and replace them with this. Never liked them myself.

I thought the diesel and petrol rev counters operated in quite different ways and couldn't be interchanged? One is hall effect and one is pulsed signal from the ignition coil? Never looked into it any further than here say but would be interested in your thoughts.

[Tim Leech]

Ive got a spare diesel dash pod if anyone needs one

[electrokid]

One is hall effect and one is pulsed signal from the ignition coil?

When I ran a diesel rev counter on the test bench it needed quite a high input voltage to get it to run (similar to the volts you'd see on the coil input) - so IMHO it's more likely to be a pickup coil - but then I've not looked further into the subject either.

And just because I found the pic the other day here's my test bench as it was then (it's been moved and modified since).

[mat_fenwick]

The diesel rev counter will be also calibrated for one pulse every revolution, rather than two pulses every revolution for a (4 cylinder single coil) petrol engine.

at your workbench though - puts mine to shame:

[electrokid]

I'm sure there are other areas where you have much more kit than me though mine is a bit OTT but I like it that way. There's a complete mix there - quite a lot of older kit bought on eBay for not a lot, there are 4 CB PSUs top left which are modified with extra variable voltage and current regulators and the main output taken to our favourite DIN 4165 socket. The cheapest kit - probably the yellow 'very basic' meters - one on the bench and 5 under the 'scopes - something like £2.78 in 10 off quantity from CPC - at that price I thought it right to buy 10 The most expensive is the lower of the 2 oscilloscopes which cost me a grand in 1990 - its front panel darkened by years of use in a smokey atmosphere One pain is mains distribution - the pic doesn't show the rack to the right which has more kit on it including an old spectrum analyser and a Melford monochrome tv monitor - under the workbench there are some 40 13A sockets and a yellow 110v transformer for a couple of the instruments and American sockets

This lot has been moved now - the oval 'chipboard bench' is protection for the G Plan dining room table which I wanted to have back to eat my dinner off. The solartron microvoltmeters (the 4 lowest instruments in the fifth stack from the left) have been put aside for another project because they have IEEE bus connectors and are destined to be part of a computer controlled setup along with a Racal nanosecond counter and some analysers.

Paraphrasing something Murray Walker once said - I could go on... and probably have done