Off Road Toad Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Can anyone help please as i dont have microcat at the moment, are 300tdi discovery and defender td5 speedo transducer senders the same part? i have YBE100530 listed for one and YBE100540 listed for the other, i'm not sure which is which but think 530 was superceded by 540? someone has told me theyre different, but i think theyre the same, can anyone confirm? I need one for a disco 300 98my and one for a defender td5 2000my Thanks, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 I've just been looking in to this (see this thread), see the following two links, which show the differences. http://www.lrseries....EEDO-DRIVE.html http://www.lrseries....EED-SENSOR.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroanaconda Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 That's right, they're not the same I'm afraid. Defender Td5 one is YBE100530 and looks like this: http://www.lrseries.com/shop/product/listing/13485/YBE100530-TRANSDUCER-SPEEDO-DRIVE.html Discovery 1 one is YBE100540 and looks like this: http://www.lrseries.com/shop/product/listing/13486/3748/8/YBE100540-TRANSDUCER-SPEED-SENSOR.html I have a couple of Discovery ones lying about if you fancy saving on the £100 for genuine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 To add, I know they are in different housings, but they mount to the same gearbox and if they use the same connector, it's highly likely they're interchangable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 but the discovery item doesn't work with the Defender Td5 speedo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandyManLuke Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Do you know why? pins different? signal type? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroanaconda Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Different signal profile I think. As you say, fitment wise they are the same but we had a thread on here recently where a chap had tried to use the Disco transducer with the Defender Td5 speedo and it didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orgasmic Farmer Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Disco one only has 2 pins and TD5 def has 3 (although the socket is the same profile. Pretty sure the extra pin on the def TD5 part is an earth so quite possible the disco one could be modified? For the £23 for a def one I wasn't going to mess about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 def unit has 12v feed/signsl to speedo/earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Off Road Toad Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 Thanks all for the help. It seems I have put a 300 one on the 90 when I put the 1.2 transfer box on, which explains why that doesn't work. The one on the disco is broken (I dropped the transfer box on it) So - I just have to get the correct Td5 part and put the 300 part back on the 300 and job done :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomreade93 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Western so there is not way of making the Discovery 300Tdi transducer work with the Defender TD5 speedo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Not that I know of, maybe CwazyWabbit on here could help it's much easier to use the correct item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Western so there is not way of making the Discovery 300Tdi transducer work with the Defender TD5 speedo? Not that I know of, maybe CwazyWabbit on here could help it's much easier to use the correct item. It is possible to make it work, I can reprogram the Defender TD5 speedo head to work with the 8200 pulses per mile that the Disco sender generates instead of the 4100 pulses per mile it normally works on. It involves dismantling the speedo head and reprogramming a memory chip. As well as reprogramming the speedo head I believe you will also need to change the sender plug as one is 3 pin and the other is 2 pin. As Western says it's much easier to use the correct item Are you doing a conversion? Or do you have a TD5 Defender? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacr2man Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 on a similar path ,although probably somewhat steeper, does a td5 transducer and via a td5 defender speedo send a speed signal that is compatible with l322 with td6 engine ? I have no reference to what TD6 L322 uses as a signal I know it works ok with edc on a 300tdi auto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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