yamaha 50 TLR tach reading all over the place

Is it a Yamaha Tach anolog or Digital.

I would test it with another tach, because it sounds like a bad tach.

 

I don't know much about instrumentation, but it sounds like you might have some corrosion at a connection that is giving intermittent resistance or connectivity. I'm thinking that the vibrations when the motor is running are why you are seeing changes as the corrosion makes more or less contact. Could be a connector to connector or wire to connector problem. Just a guess, but before you replace the tach I'd check all the wiring going to and from it. YMMV

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It's not a lose connection or something like that, it can be only 2 things bad tach or the motor sending a bad signal from the Rec.

An intermittent singal would not give u a 7K reading.

When you run it this weekend, while underway knock on and tap on the glass of the tach and see if the needle moves/changes RPM's, if so bad tach R&R it's pretty common for them to go bad!

 

I will certainly bow to your knowledge on this kind of thing. I know that a tach keys off of the impulses sent from the ignition, but I have no clue as to the mechanism. I mean given that you say an intermittent signal is not it, I can guess it works sort of like a PVA but that is just that, a guess. I missed that it was going high too.

Thanks

 

It's on the wrong pole setting! Look on the back of the tach and change it to the correct setting.

 

Glad that was it and its fixed!