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MyFirst5000
01-19-2004, 11:01 AM
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See http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/instrument.html#speedo shows you how to pull the cluster but i was told by a dealer my tacho was DOA and unrepairable! Since i'm an electronics engineer i spent some time on it myself and after a couple of hours investigation using normal repair techiques found a resistor had 'gone high' in value! Should be 1300ohms, not 103k. Resistor is physically positioned directly off pin one (but can't recall if its connected, i think not) off the tacho ic type ITT V 3003-393. NOTE: There's no data out there about this chip! Found ignition pulses were arriving at the chip but it was not oscillating on it's crystal. Just posting this for the database and anyone else whose tacho is dead.

Will Ng
01-19-2004, 08:16 PM

boxerfan
01-20-2004, 09:58 AM
http://www.aeri.com/?source=overture&amp;OVRAW=itt%20semiconductor%20integ rated%20circuit&amp;OVKEY=circuit%20integrated%20semic onductor&amp;OVMTC=standard

I'm looking for more info...

boxerfan
01-20-2004, 10:12 AM
How many pins? I'll try and find a substitute...

Perhaps...

http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM193.pdf

Likely candidate. Note that it will oscillate easily should the resistance values go arwy.

MyFirst5000
01-21-2004, 12:54 AM
In doing my own repair i deduced that since the 18 pin dip ic didn't have oscillating signal on its pins connected to the crystal that the chip wasn't necessarily defunct. It looked phycically ok, just not operating. Traced the supply Vreg to the ic goes through the lage 47R green resistor and on thru the little series pass transistors next the ic which just didn't seem biased right and couldn't switch on so the ic couldn't. Hence deadness. Replace bias resitor which had changed value and all happy. Weird part code from ITT V 3003-393. Probably custom code for VDO.