How Does Inductive Hour Meter Get its Power?

It is powered by the spark plug wire. You simply wrap the wire from the hour meter around the outside of the spark plug wire. It starts counting when it feels the electrical pulse through the spark plug wire and shuts itself off when the pulses stop.

Inductive Hour Meter
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