Multiple electric horn
#21
Loud horns may save your hide
I ride a quiet motorcycle with loud electric horns - been doing so since 1978.
Cagers and others are not expecting a freight train so it's fun to give em a blast.
Be careful as some sociopaths get very angry when getting a dose of Decibels
The use of a relay is required not an option - They will be louder as they will get full voltage/current this way.
You do not want all that current arcing burning your horn button contacts
LOUD Horns can be the difference between crashing and not crashing so take your loud pipes and put them in the dumpster as they don't work.
Mounting them is always a challenge but I fabricated a bracket the works well.
I will post up a pic later today.
Mount the relay where the horn lives-if you are really vane you can put it in the cowbell [remove the orig horn....doh]. I have a harness I fabricated that integrates the horns to the motorcycle nicely &
I use the battery tender feed for the horn power - the horn circuit runs the relay which is mounted where the cowbell mounts.
The heat is run off the accy circuit wiring behind the side cover using the harness that you have to get from HD.
Hella horns used to be my choice of horn but since the manufacturing went off shore the quality went down - over time the the horns need replacing from getting soaked.
Cagers and others are not expecting a freight train so it's fun to give em a blast.
Be careful as some sociopaths get very angry when getting a dose of Decibels
The use of a relay is required not an option - They will be louder as they will get full voltage/current this way.
You do not want all that current arcing burning your horn button contacts
LOUD Horns can be the difference between crashing and not crashing so take your loud pipes and put them in the dumpster as they don't work.
Mounting them is always a challenge but I fabricated a bracket the works well.
I will post up a pic later today.
Mount the relay where the horn lives-if you are really vane you can put it in the cowbell [remove the orig horn....doh]. I have a harness I fabricated that integrates the horns to the motorcycle nicely &
I use the battery tender feed for the horn power - the horn circuit runs the relay which is mounted where the cowbell mounts.
The heat is run off the accy circuit wiring behind the side cover using the harness that you have to get from HD.
Hella horns used to be my choice of horn but since the manufacturing went off shore the quality went down - over time the the horns need replacing from getting soaked.
Last edited by ADVNTR; 12-22-2016 at 06:15 AM.
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I mounted mine the opposite of those posted above. In other words, the one on the cowbell side, I put on the other side of the engine. This keeps the horn outlet down to reduce water from getting in the horn, along with a little tilt down also.
Last edited by TheGrandPoohBah; 12-22-2016 at 06:59 PM.
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