Gents, I've a Lotus Elise instrument cluster which I bought several years ago and stashed in my shed awaiting use in my Luego and I'd liek to test it to see if it works, only I don't have a handy Elise to plug it into. Does anyone know of any way to power it up to see if it's still functional i.e. apply voltage to certain terminals?
I trained as a mechanical fitter many years ago so please go easy on me

Is it a genuine stack one? There are a couple of differnt types for early and late models and the VX220.
I wired a VX220 set in to my nova but the wiring diagram came from a foreign vx220(speedster) forum.

Do you have a length of cable out the back?

It's says stack on the front, the label on the rear is as shown below. It has no cable (didn't come with one) but needs a specific plug.






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That looks like a S2 dash, which suits the toyota engine and I think is a CANBUS system - so might be hard work getting it to run on regular wiring.

EDIT - might be wrong on that acctually as the toyota engined ones had a 10k rev limit IIRC.

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This is the rear of my VX220/Tornado/Shurlock unit but I doubt the wiring I have will give you any assistance.





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this page

http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f92/new-shift-light-18263/index3.html

post #46
shows a page from the workshop manual / lotus service notes, - electrics: instruments.

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Originally posted by loggyboy
That looks like a S2 dash, which suits the toyota engine and I think is a CANBUS system - so might be hard work getting it to run on regular wiring.

EDIT - might be wrong on that acctually as the toyota engined ones had a 10k rev limit IIRC.

[Edited on 13-9-13 by loggyboy]

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Yep, it's an early S2 k-series. My 2002 Elise had a stack unit but my current 2004 elise (still k series) does not.

It you go on http://forums.seloc.org/ there is a technical section and someone will be able to help or possibly offer to let you plug it in.

Thanks for the help and the links guys, much appreciated.

I work for a lotus race team that is off a series 1 and early series 2 which have a rover k series 1.8 engine in vvc and non vvc. It is not Toyota as the Toyota clocks go to 10,000 rpm. Just use a power probe and work through the terminals, I can't remember which pin is which I just use a power probe or I may have a diagram somewhere at work and will look on Monday

Thanks Dooey, much appreciated.