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VP speedo

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 6:19 pm
by HQ355
Over the last few months I've been swapping the guts of a VP (thanks Vlad) speedo in to a spare HQ housing. Found a spare couple of hours today and thought I'd get it working, got as much info about wiring as I could find and traced back all the pin outs of original cluster but no work ? Anyone got any ideas ? Does it need that board at the back that the taco goes through as well ? I put some power on speedo motor and it went off the clock so it still work fine it's just somthing in the wiring I'm missing. There's not much on the bet how there wired,it's mostly plug here and there and it works

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:20 pm
by Jayme
electronic speedo.zip
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I did one once before. I followed this guide. you only need the speedo itself and the board that mounts behind it. the wires, you can lengthen and put the board somewhere else as it wont fit in the HQ speedo case.
its fairly easy to figure out the wires into the board, there is power, earth, input from VSS, and divide by 5 output back to pcm.

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 4:47 pm
by HQ355
Thanks Jayme hopefully get a chance to have a crack at it tomorow

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:54 pm
by HQ355
After a few intoxicating beverages last night the light bulb lit up, I only traced 3 wires out of the 5 on the speedo cluster and thought I assed it when I found earth, power and what I thought was vss input (it said 10 pulses on back of speedo pcb beside the 2 pulse circuit) after looking at cluster today and on another connecter there is one that just has vss, that is the one needed and all works a treat now !so if any one else is using a VN speedo for conversion you don't need the separate board on the back of the cluster, just 3 wires :)

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 2:34 pm
by Gareth
Again, beer holds the answer :lol:

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 5:04 pm
by HQ355
And a little help from jack :)

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 4:08 pm
by Holden202T
i'll drink to that :D

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 6:28 pm
by ralcool
Ted Bullpitt did say "a job worth doing, is worth doing with a beer."

Re: VP speedo

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:59 pm
by HQ355
Leave the money on the fridge :)