Has anyone tried / installed a trail tech Vapor?

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Has anyone tried / installed a trail tech Vapor?

FastCletus
Was looking around on the www for a small clock to put on my bike, and came across some folks getting rid of their big and bulky speedo and tach and replacing with a trail tech vapor with the signal switches.  For $150 you can go to digital, and I think it looks cool as hell. out side temp, tach, clock, speedo, and a bunch of other data shit

My question is, being this tach doesn't work from a cable like mine currently has, so how do you connect it to the coil, as my bike has 2 coils?  any ideas or thoughts

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Hook it to one coil, and set the unit to 2 cylinders.
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FastCletus
Have you used on before?  Do you like it ?
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I have never heard of one before, but that is how you use a dwell meter on one of these bikes, and the tachometer works on the dwell meter.
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Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."

1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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I have one on the water buffalo. I love it. But the tach is famous for not working properly out of the box. The manufacturer recommends to add a 600 ohm resistor in the line to make it operate if it doesn't work right out of the box. Something I've been meaning to do,but havent gotten around to yet. Mainly because I'm just simply not worried about that tach. Everything else works like a charm.
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FastCletus
Just curious, what is the water buffalo?  
@FastCletus552 aka Jimmy C, buildin' rides out of Napa CA
Current Build 1980 CB 750 F
Finished Build 1975 CB 500T Cafe Racer - SOLD
2002 Ducati 998 Biposto
2005 Rossi #46 Scooter