Tracy and Mark.
This is the hot tip. Try it you will
love it. The 50 cent solution.

It works all the way from a few hundred
RPM up to 7500. CMOS chips like this one will tolerate
and clamp input voltages to 15 volts. Put a 15 volt
input zener on there if it makes you feel better :)

Take your pick. Up going or down going out put pulse.
This is one of my favorite chips. Almost
as ubiquitous as a 555.

I am done with this problem. I got my RPM counter
chips today so that is next.

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I lied. I could not help myself :)

I fooled around with it some more and
made an improvement. It works better
at lower cranking speeds. This is
333 RPM. Any non polarized cap
can be used. Use two 1 Mfd caps
side by side if you can't find a
2.2 or some such.

A CD4049 makes a great amp. Here is the results.

Paul Lamar