I thought it'd be both interesting and useful to fit an engine timer to my new outboard so I'd have an idea of how long it's run over it's life as well as for servicing.
I bought one of
these engine timers from ebay, £5 from china, took a week to turn up.
It's got to be one of the easiest mods that you can possible do and takes < 3 minutes and 4 baby cable ties.
Here is the packaging
- Packaging
Back of the unit, it's completely sealed.
- Contents
To give an indication of size...
- Size
To mount, you take the cable, wrap it times around a HT lead and cable tie on. you then pass the free end through the groove on the back of the timer. Basically you're creating a little inductive transformer. The coil of wire gets energised when there is a spark and the timer uses, I'm guessing, the hall effect to sense this. When it senses a current then the clock starts timing. Simple!
Make sure you cable tie everything out of the way of anything hot or moving.
- Mounting
Here it is working, showing 1.2 hours.
- Working
