Wiring up a ZX6R gauge to a pro-gauge

[bigmarky]

So I went with the pro-gauge and i'm wiring up to an older kawasaki zx6r ninja gauge cluster
(using roughly the same gauges with 3 wires each as the custom guy did http://www.symprojects.com/forum/index.php?topic=796.0)

My question is that the wires are not colored properly so i'm not sure which wires are the 3 signal/power/ground



will upload an image of the front and back shortly

[bigmarky]

[bigmarky]

In the custom build his colors were easy to see:


Mine

[bigmarky]

smaller pic to see the 3 wires
i'm assuming 1 is each power signal ground

just can't figure out which color is which
brown - black/yellow / black

obviously black would be ground
but is brown power or black yellow?

[JPS]

Since brown and black/yellow also go to the speedometer, and assuming the order left-right would stay intact, I'd say black signal, black/yellow + and brown -.

It also seems that the wires from speedo and tacho still come together further down, so if they actually do and not stay seperate it's 90% sure.

[bigmarky]

black = signal
b/y = positive
brown = ground

if i hooked up a multi-meter how could i confirm it?
and yes its the same from the speedometer running down to connect at the clip

[bigmarky]

thanks very much you are correct, i followed the wire pattern and that makes sense

i wrote the speedo backwards
thats' the temp gauge

the speedo just has a screw behind, not sure how that works

[JPS]

Speedo looks like it's mechanical, not electrical.

[bigmarky]

yeah i realised that after i posted the picture, where i wrote speedo that's the temp gauge

as soon as i get the pro-gauge in i'll find a elect. speedometer

[bigmarky]

i finally got the progauge in

i wired up the tacho and temp gauge as describe

nothing moves the needle on the test bars for the tacho
and on the temp gauge it went max, and now the gauge wont go back down even though i moved the bars back to 0

do you think just my zx6r gauge set is bad?

[bigmarky]

i'm assuming its a gauge issue when i try to test the values, and only if i slam the value of the temp gague it goes to max never inbetween

[bigmarky]

please help if possible

i ran the 3 wires straight from the tacho to the board

brown = ground
black = signal
black/yellow = power

nothing happens when i move the sliders on the test bars

[JPS]

Settings for temp and other gauges can be very sensitive to set. It might work in the 1000s, it might work below 20 (at max). Unless you can get the settings from someone that has it working, I suggest you take it slow. So set 4 sliders at 2-6-10-15 for exampl3e, see if one moves the needle and go from there....

I also found that sometimes you just have to unplug the whole thing for it to correctly respond (possible after you might have set it too high, not sure).

[bigmarky]

yes, i had the bar way too high so it would stick at max on the temp gauge, and i would unplug it to reset
i can find the bar values to keep it near max

that's not the real issue though, my tacho doesnt even move at any bar reading i know its gotta be wired up correctly
black is alone and should be the signal
black/yellow was grouped with the others and should  be power
brown is grouped with the other gauges so should be ground

i was hoping it would all work out, i may buy a ebay tacho for 35bux just to get going

[bigmarky]

i took the entire cluster apart and the tacho works up to 16k rpm

WORDS CANT DESCRIBE HOW HAPPY I AM