I have been down this road and found poor connections between the windings
and connector lugs. I had to solder the connections making sure not to melt
the plastic insulators under the lugs. Good luck.nk
----- Original Message -----
From: Theo Smit <TSMIT@isotel.com>
To: 'Daniel S. Eiland' <deiland1@elp.rr.com>; Tigers@autox,team.net
<tigers@autox.team.net>; Alpines <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: Hooter's
> Hi Dan,
>
> You're trying it the right way. Two possibilities: 1. The points are stuck
> closed; 2. There's an open circuit. From the first, you'll typically get a
> 'click' out of the horn when you connect or disconnect the battery, but
not
> otherwise, and the horn will get warm (HOT).
> If you have an ohm meter, measure the resistance between the two horn
> connections; it should be around 4 or 5 ohms or less (I'm kind of guessing
> here, based on the current they draw). If this is OK, and you get no
sound,
> then the points are stuck closed. If you get 'open circuit', then there's
> something wrong with the way the points are put together or the voice coil
> is toast, and you'll have to take it apart again to find out which.
>
> I have a pair of hooters on my Tiger that worked until I put them in the
> car, so I will be repeating all the work you do in the near future. Do
keep
> us informed of your progress!
>
> Regards,
> Theo
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel S. Eiland [SMTP:deiland1@elp.rr.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 5:45 PM
> > To: Tigers@autox,team.net; Alpines
> > Subject: Hooter's
> >
> > Hi Lister's,
> >
> > Back again for more advice. Want to thank everyone who gave their
> > input
> > on rebuilding the hooters. Now I want to check them before I re-install
> > them. How do I hook up the electrical to test the hooters? Does one side
> > go
> > to ground while the other goes to positive? I did this and get nothing
> > from
> > either of the horns. I know at least one of them worked when I removed
> > them
> > and I'm pretty sure both were working. Only took one of them apart so
the
> > other one has only been repainted. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Dan Eiland
>
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