Electronic Smiths instruments

Hello you all,

A friend of mine, tired about flickering needles, cables or speedo drive breakage is wondering about new Smiths from Andover. I had a look at their web site and the instructions sheet generously provided by a Access Norton member, (Sorry I forgot his name)
Frankly it is not a piece of cake, not a plug and play thing.
I have few questions:
1-In my understanding, with the new speedometer, we don't get rid of the unreliable speedo gearbox at the rear wheel?
2-The tachometer installation looks a lot simplier...Am I right?
3- I Would like to have some reliability feed back from those who have those please?
4- I would have thought that a GPS thing is feeding the speedometer instead of the proposed set up.. Am I dreaming or having a nigthmare ahead?

Thank you for all your feedback

Fitting them is a nightmare. There are so many wires !! And the programming is a faff.

You can use the stock shit gearbox drive if yer like, or there are other trigger methods available. Matt at cNw may offer something now I think, otherwise some work will be needed to make things fit.

Personally, mine have been totally reliable in over 10 years, but others have been less fortunate.

If I was doing it again I’m not sure whether or not I’d bother.

RGM used to do a satellite triggered speedo but it doesn’t seem to be listed anymore ?

I have the Chronometric lookalike version on my ES2, has been there for a number of years and (tempting fate) has been faultless to date.
As FE says calibrating was a bit of a pain, the instructions are easy to get wrong.
When i bought from Tum Kullen (RIP) he was offerling a magnetic pick up, the original speedo drive was gutted it went in there. Great system.