Has anyone here ever used the Trail Tech gauges on anything? https://www.trailtech.net/ Was thinking about using for a dune buggy project I have with limited room for traditional gauges. If used how accurate did you find the system. Was thinking of using the Vapor. Thanks
I had a Trail Tech Vector on my DRZ rallybike- seemed fine, temperature reading always worked well and seemed reasonable, tachometer, odometer, and timer functions worked exactly as I wanted them to for that application. I would install one again if the need arose, it was reliable and simple.
In reply to pirate :
Are you planning on using a motorcycle engine or a car engine? I think that the Vapor tachometer bar scale range is fixed at 12,000 RPM, so if using a car engine, you'll probably only be using the lower half of the scale, if that matters to you.
I really like the look of this one from Koso, which is available with a 10,000 RPM tach:
https://kosonorthamerica.com/product/rx-2n-gp-style-multifunction-10-000-rpm/
Although it costs way more than the Trail Tech Vapor.
In reply to mainlandboy :
Engine will be VW so tach range as you mentioned is kind of over kill. Like the unit because it is small and probably will add oil pressure and volt meter gauges as well as warning lights for both gauges. Vapor unit has provision for measuring air cool cylinder head temperature. Dune buggy is sandrail type but will be street legal so need speedo. Price is also favorable especially if the unit works well.
It's a little small to read at a glance, but did the trick. Could never quite get the inductive pickup to read accurately on the wr426 I had.
fatallightning said:It's a little small to read at a glance, but did the trick. Could never quite get the inductive pickup to read accurately on the wr426 I had.
By inductive pick up are you speaking of the tach pick up? If so I did think it was a bit strange by just wrapping it several time around a spark plug wire.
I've used one on one of my Suzuki DR350s...which is air/oil cooled. Took a little bit of fiddling to get it set up and working well. I like it enough I bought another to put on my Husqvarna 701 that went through three factory gauges in the first few thousand miles! Apparently the stock instruments don't like water, which isn't good for a dual sport in the Pacific Northwest.
As an aside, Trail Tech isn't far from Portland, so I was able to ride there to pick up the Vapor, even took a nice off-pavement route to get there!
In reply to pirate :
yep. Tried doing the wire on the coil itself first, then wrapped around the spark wire. Tried different number of wraps, different spots, etc. Just seemed to be jumpy no matter what.
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