Shift light settings - standard SLR

[finmac]

going to set up my shift lights and wonder what settings I should use please? Peak power is at 7500rpm so first red light at 7500? What is the usual starting point for first green?

[Jonathan Kay]

You're only asking about the engine speeds, not how to configure the device?

Jonathan

[Jig]

Decide how many rpm you want to use in your power band and use peak power as the centre. So if you want 3000rpm as a power band, and peak is 7500 then you would want first light at 6000 and last at 9000. This obviously assumes that your limit is above 9000 so move band downwards accordingly so that you stay in your limit. That then means that when racing, you always want at least the first light on and you change when last/flashing is hit in order to always stay near your peak power. I used to set my last light a few hundred below the rev limiter because otherwise I kept hitting the limit in the time it took me to react to the lights and change up.