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Old January 3rd, 2017, 05:54 PM   #3
InvisiBill
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Name: Bill
Location: Grand Rapids-ish, MI
Join Date: Jul 2012

Motorcycle(s): '18 Ninja 400 • '09 Ninja 500R (selling) • '98 VFR800 (project) • '85 Vulcan VN700 (sold)

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MOTM - Aug '15
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Originally Posted by magnaton View Post
Did some prep reading, and there are a lot of suggestions to wire the tach straight to the coil instead of wrapping a spark plug. How does one do this? Please explain as if talking to a 5-year old who has never done anything more adventurous than attach new turn signals.
The black wire at the dash is a fork off the wire running from the igniter to the coil. Just connect to that.

Note that the coils and tach receive constant 12V power (red and brown wires respectively), and the igniter grounds the black (or green) wire to complete the circuit.
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