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• timing light adapter by truckinwagen on 19 Oct, 2009 12:50
• I am looking into making my gasser timing light work on my diesel
  would a clamp on transducer from tinytach put out a pulse strong enough to trigger a timing light?
  
  if so, would I have to have the transducer lead connected to anything(like a tachometer) or will the inductive pickup on the timing light sense the pulse even with the lead just hanging off the transducer?
  
  I am trying to avoid spending the big money that is wanted for the "real" diesel timing light adapters.
  
  
  also where do our little diesels like to sit timing wise(in degrees BTDC)?
• #1 by Powered by Spearco on 19 Oct, 2009 13:04
• "also where do our little diesels like to sit timing wise(in degrees BTDC)?"
  I think Andrew just was talking about this in another post of his.
  12.5 BTDC?
• #2 by truckinwagen on 19 Oct, 2009 13:10
• as for transforming the voltage higher, any easy way to do this?
  
  or am I condemned to buying a real timing light adapter?