I'm surprised to read that some of you guys have had issues with the Tiny Tach. I've never felt like mine was slow to read. And, it always clears when it powers off. Have you guys contacted Fast Tach about the issues?
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My brand new Fast Tach does not clear the max setting when it turns off. It must be manually reset and holding the mode button for 5 seconds is more challenging than it should be. I guess I will give them a call Tuesday.
Same here, but it does do what i bought it for
benp
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I have had no issues with my Fast Tach. Does the job.
I remember a while back there was a tach that a couple members here have that attaches to the saw and runs a wire to the spark plug wire. The tach itself seems relatively small and I recall they had it cable tied to the handle bar.
You can watch your RPM while you cut and it also has an hour meter I believe.
I am interested in one of these just out of curiosity...
Anyone familiar with what I describing?
I remember a while back there was a tach that a couple members here have that attaches to the saw and runs a wire to the spark plug wire. The tach itself seems relatively small and I recall they had it cable tied to the handle bar.
You can watch your RPM while you cut and it also has an hour meter I believe.
I am interested in one of these just out of curiosity...
Anyone familiar with what I describing?
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I have a PET-2000DX that I bought from The Cutting Edge guys 5 years ago - and is very happy with it! :biggrin:
I don't know what the difference between that one and the current DXR is.
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the above pictured tach is the works connection tach. I received one attached to a saw I bought off Matt, not sure if he attached it or someone else did. I thought it was a bit of a gimmick, but it sure did make tuning a snap. I used to tune all my saws with a hand held tach, but it got hard to find the time to do it. I live in a residential area, and I dont get home till late. Most people don't appreciate the sound of a dozen muff modded chainsaws being started up and run at the redline consecutively on a weekend.
It never bothered me for a while, but a few months ago I had an issue. one of my 044's was running lean and I knew it. I'd pull it out, start it up, realise it was running way too fast then put it aside, thinking I'd tune it on the weekend. Weekend would come and I wouldn't want to piss the neighbours off. Or I'd forget.... Anyway, one day the inevitable happened. Big take down, all the saws were run and blunted pretty much every chain. I was off dumping and one of the guys ran that 044 and lean seized it. I ordered a box of the works connection tachs and fitted one to each of my saws, the pole saw, and even the blowers. Stump grinder came with one attached already.
I can tune them all on the job now, and I'll admit the hour meter is a bit of a novelty. It's interesting to see how many hours the saws rack up each week. I was surprised how many hours I'm putting on my climbing saws (a lot!) and how few hours the bigger saws rack up. If you were anal you could use this as the basis for your servicing, or keep stats on how much fuel, oil, chains etc you use per hour. I don't have time for stuff like that. Its just nice to know I'll not be lean seizing a saw again.
Shaun
It never bothered me for a while, but a few months ago I had an issue. one of my 044's was running lean and I knew it. I'd pull it out, start it up, realise it was running way too fast then put it aside, thinking I'd tune it on the weekend. Weekend would come and I wouldn't want to piss the neighbours off. Or I'd forget.... Anyway, one day the inevitable happened. Big take down, all the saws were run and blunted pretty much every chain. I was off dumping and one of the guys ran that 044 and lean seized it. I ordered a box of the works connection tachs and fitted one to each of my saws, the pole saw, and even the blowers. Stump grinder came with one attached already.
I can tune them all on the job now, and I'll admit the hour meter is a bit of a novelty. It's interesting to see how many hours the saws rack up each week. I was surprised how many hours I'm putting on my climbing saws (a lot!) and how few hours the bigger saws rack up. If you were anal you could use this as the basis for your servicing, or keep stats on how much fuel, oil, chains etc you use per hour. I don't have time for stuff like that. Its just nice to know I'll not be lean seizing a saw again.
Shaun
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ps - don't buy the stihl edt7 or whatever it is. I had one of those and they are truly awful. I think they're made by sendec. The refresh rate is 2 seconds, which doesn't sound bad but it means you need to run your saw at redline for a couple minutes to tune it because you need time between each tune for it to refresh. Get any other tach except the stihl one. Kind of weird to say that since the stihl stuff is usually pretty good.
Shaun
Shaun
I called about the Fast Tach today and was told the newer versions do not auto reset the max rpm.
Also, the stubborn button is a known issue. The solution offered was to pull the cover sticker off and add some material above the button (or return/exchange). With the button working correctly, I am much happier with the unit now.
Also, the stubborn button is a known issue. The solution offered was to pull the cover sticker off and add some material above the button (or return/exchange). With the button working correctly, I am much happier with the unit now.
