Atena Speedometer

[(Nobody You Know)]

Recently my port tachometer died. (It died. I jumped it's wires to the starboard tach where the sending unit works). As I recall past threads on this subject showed little hope for rebuilds or replacement without also replaceing the sending unit.

Aetna Speedometer offers replacements for both tach and sending units. Because the replacement tachs are digital and, of course, in no way resemble the original, I am looking at replacing port and starboard components (what the hell, the starboard is just as old and probably going to die soon anyway).

Question is: has anybody had good or bad experience with Aetna Speedometer? I welcome any practical alternate suggestions to my otherwise very expensive dilemma.

Thanks.

[JLR]

If you are referring to AETNA digital tachometers, I have had very good luck with them. Jim is a nice fellow and very helpful. I have eight of his digital tachs, two sets on each boat.

[(Nobody You Know)]

Forgot to mention that Sparky had some good suggestions concerning possibilities of repair. The best I could come up with was an outfit in Virginia who's pricing was too close to total replacement, but yet would only fix what was broke and not really a "rebuild". The guy admitted that other components could still fail.

[GJH]

You can get new sending units, made by Aetna as I recall from Lauderdale Speedometer, give them a call, mine, which replaced old Suns, ran about 45 bucks a piece a year ago. They are very knowledgeable about our boats.

http://www.lspeedo.com/

[Bill Allen]

Had athena tachs on my topaz before the repower, never had a problem with them. Think I had to order the drive pin which was handled quickly. Bill

[(Nobody You Know)]

Thanks for the feed back guys. I just ordered two tachs and sending units from Aetna. Jim advised going with a sending unit that screws in where the cable attaches. The cable will now attach to the new sending unit. Sounds like "plug-n-play" which I like.