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Does anyone know of a good way to test to see if a wire is a valid tach input wire for remote start. I was thinking maybe using an analog meter and using the voltage scale to see if the the needle bounces increasingly as RPMs rise. Anyone have better information of a known good practice?
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DMM set to ac is the most common way.
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Is there a recommended voltage range to use?
Would perhaps an analog meter would be more visually intuitive do you think?
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Lowest Ac setting is good enough. No as the frequency will be to high to see the inverse of the AC sine wave only the peak (high).
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Thank you.
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Your welcome.
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Depending on the meter you need to try it on AC and DC volts. The correct wire will show an increase in voltage when you rev the engine.
It is actually a pulsating DC voltage. Some meters will read it as AC and others will read it as DC. Once you figure out which one works on your meter it will be the same vehicle to vehicle.

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