New compact horn installed

PostPost by: Pistacchio sprint 72 » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:56 am

I was shoked how useless was the original honk in the traffic.
I bought this compact horn to be louder.
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PostPost by: Pistacchio sprint 72 » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:59 am

I got it friday evening and could not wait this morning!
I found a useless piece of metal already in place inside the engine bay nose.
There was a perfect hole already in place to receive the nut necessary to hold the horn in place.

It was a straight wire swap from the old horn to the new one.
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PostPost by: Pistacchio sprint 72 » Sat Nov 09, 2013 8:01 am

It delivers 120 db or something likethat.
I need to go for a drive and honk a few suv :mrgreen:
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PostPost by: john.p.clegg » Sat Nov 09, 2013 9:13 am

Looks like they gave you a relay with the new set-up,have you used it?

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PostPost by: Pistacchio sprint 72 » Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:34 am

Nah, there was already a relay in the original wiring for the previous electric horn.
Is that bad?
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PostPost by: john.p.clegg » Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:44 am

No,that's fine...

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PostPost by: GrUmPyBoDgEr » Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:09 pm

That is a tidy & compact horn.
Where can they be sourced & how much do they cost please.

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PostPost by: Pistacchio sprint 72 » Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:38 pm

The original model is made by fiam an italian horn company.
Mine is from another brand but
much look alike i did not care.

http://www.klaxauto.com/fr/klaxon-elect ... 115db.html

34,9 e pretty good deal
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PostPost by: mbell » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:06 pm

Looks good, thinking of fitting something similar to mine as will need to relocate my current horns.

Some thing similar can be picked up from harbour freight for less than $40 here in the US.
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PostPost by: Jeff@Jae » Sun Nov 10, 2013 6:34 pm

For those in North America Ray @ RD Enterprises has them.
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PostPost by: gjz30075 » Sun Nov 10, 2013 8:27 pm

Looks like there's a small compressor attached. Is is an air horn? If so, is there the delay one experiences with an air horn?

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PostPost by: garybolin » Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:39 am

Trick I used on my Elan was to wire new horn and old horns in series. That way, if you just need a small tap to get someones attention in a parking lot or in city traffic, the old horns respond instantly. But if you need the air horn, just press hard on the horn button and you get everyone's attention. :wink:
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PostPost by: john.p.clegg » Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:43 am

Surely you mean "wired in parallel"..otherwise you'd only get 6v at each horn?

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PostPost by: Quart Meg Miles » Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:45 pm

Clever idea, garyb and john.p is correct about the wiring (though simplistic about the voltage in series, especially if the original is a vibrating reed horn)! Just being pedantic.
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