White Instrument Cluster Dial Group Purchase

Very nice, but I've never understood why rpm is shown in hundreds rather than thousands - for instance we never say twenty hundred rpm, always two thousand, so why show 20 and not 2?
I am struggling to see your point???

If the needle is pointing at 2 and the scale is x1000 then 2x1000 = 2000 rpm which is correct.

If the needle is pointing at say 1.6 then 1.6 X 1000 = 1600 rpm which is correct.

Andy
 
I am struggling to see your point???

If the needle is pointing at 2 and the scale is x1000 then 2x1000 = 2000 rpm which is correct.

If the needle is pointing at say 1.6 then 1.6 X 1000 = 1600 rpm which is correct.

Andy

Andy
If you click to expand the link post in Trevor's mail you'll see the 'custom' rev counter dial is marked 10, 20, 30 etc

Cheers Spike
 
I am struggling to see your point???

If the needle is pointing at 2 and the scale is x1000 then 2x1000 = 2000 rpm which is correct.

If the needle is pointing at say 1.6 then 1.6 X 1000 = 1600 rpm which is correct.



Andy
Hi Andy

If you look at the picture you will see that the revs are in hundreds and not thousands as it should be. So 2000 revs is shown as 20 on the dial not 2. I have never seen that before and it looks very strange as Trevor said.

2000 revs should be 2 not 20.
I wouldn’t be buying one if 2000 revs was 20

Steve B
 
The tachometer scale dates back to the early days of steam when engines rotated slowly, as they evolved they rotated faster and 10 was adopted for 1000 rpm and became a "standard" of rpm
 
Okay, I never clicked the link and thought the comment was on the Tom's picture in post #57. All makes sense now.

Andy
 
Mathematically, of course, it's all the same. However, I also find scales based on '1/min x1000' more elegant than those based on '1/min x100'.

Cheers,

Tom
 
The tachometer scale dates back to the early days of steam when engines rotated slowly, as they evolved they rotated faster and 10 was adopted for 1000 rpm and became a "standard" of rpm
I've never seen a tachometer on a reciprocating steam engine. Not necessary because they rotate at a relatively slow rate. Steam turbines are inefficient at low revs and so there would always have been a requirement for a tachometer, particularly for electricity generation.

RAB
 
Evening all,

As this idea didn’t quite generate the interest I was hoping for I’ll park it for now.

No doubt I’ll try it again in time. For now I’ll stick with the Footrest Group buy along with starting my headlining reupholstering service (still not quite ready due to work commitments).

Thanks to those of you who showed interest in the dial kit, hopefully I can resume this another time along with more information on a more simple method of getting them fitted.

With Toms @timmus time even more precious than before it’s something I believe can wait until later on.

Kind regards,

Tom
 
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