Pantera Tach and Duraspark ignition

Doug,

The Pantera's tach is electronic; it needs 12 volts, a good ground, AND one wire attached to the negative terminal of the coil.

Here's a topic from a while back, we helped Dennis with his tach, some good info and a few good laughs too. It's long, about 9 pages. One of the later pages has a good photo of the back of the tach from under the dash:

http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6450045562/m/1340050583/p/1

Your friend on the DTBB

No one ever told me that the tach needs it's own power source. I hope I din't burn it out. It's gonna' look a little silly with a Sun tach in it.

Does the wire from the - coil terminal just need to be connected to the tach or run through it?
I ran a dedicated wire to the tach from the - terminal, tested the ground for continuity, ran a + supply to the other tach terminal.
Took the tach to a tach repair guy. He tested it, cleaned it. Said it works fine and was right on.
Plugged it in still doesn't work.
Went and bought another Pantera tach. Plugged it in, it doesn't work. Can you hear me screaming all the way to Australia.
It's the freakin' Emus, I know it is. Here Emu, here Emu, nice Emu.

Three connections at the back of the tach need connection, the ground, the 12 VDC, the neg of the coil. If the tach is good, that is enough to make it work.

Then wave 3 emu hairs over the tach and sing "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" while drinking a bottle of Foster's.

Your friend on the DTBB

You need to understand that I am in fact on an ancient Indian burial ground and there are paralel power lines runing east and west of me less then a mile apart.
Now I have this wild Emu problem out of no where and it's 18 degrees.
Forget it, no one understands.