John,
Don't feel so bad, I have everything working on my bugeye, except the horns.
I've got an orginal
lucus set probably off an MGB, and they both test out fine when hooked directly
to the battery, but
when I wire them up all I get is 'chirp' from them, even if I try just one.
I've tried 'grounding'
the steering rack, which showed a trememdous improvement on the ohm meter, but
that did'nt work, so
then I tried using a relay, while still using the orginal power wire to the
horn, but still no
luck, so my next option is to run a 'dedicated' wire directly from the battery
to power the horns,
but I have been reluctant to do that because it didn't want the messy extra
wire under the bonnet,
but it looks like I don't have any alternative.
In any case the horns do draw a lot of current, so they should be hooked up in
parallel. After
working on the bugeye, and reviewing the schematics, I noticed that the sprite
has one fuse (out of
only two) dedicated to just the horn. ;-)I
Regards - Bryan Vandiver (59-bugeye)
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>Thanks for everyone's responses, but the main point is, I put the two horns
>back exactly as they were last week when they worked, both at the same time.
>I'm pretty sure this was the stock setup, as the wires are purple, and match
>the rest of the car's wiring.
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>They are those Fiamm horns you can get at Pep Boys (The Freeway Blaster -
>For that Big Rig sound, yeah right!). They have two contacts on each horn
>which plug into two separate Y-shaped purple cables.
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>One of the cables consists two purple wires, the other consists of four. I
>know this is very technical.
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>I just don't get it. At least I can have one horn working at a time.
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>Thanks,
>John
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