I don't know if it is of any use, but Silicon Chip (www.siliconchip.com.au)
published a Spped Alert/ Speedo project in Nov/Dec 99. Jaycar have a kit
for it KC5279.

This used a home wound coil to get pulses from magnets on the drive shaft.
It may not be greatly sophisticated but it works on my car.

At 22:50 16/02/01, you wrote:
>Just a quickie, has anyone connected a magnetic
>coil pickup, as the typical sensor used in car
>speedos, to a PIC??
>-Roman
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