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Wiring 2 horns to '79 gs850g ?

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Hi everyone,


I just connected up a new horn to replace the old barely functioning whisper quiet "meep meep" horn.

I have 2 wires, a green and an orange with blade connectors on them that can be connected up to a horn on the original harness.

(I connected and have a working "high tone" freeway blaster on there for the past couple hours.)

In order to connect the "low tone" horn as well as the high tone would I just need to create a "jumper wire" ?

would I need to run a relay and connection to the battery ? (seems to work fine with one horn without a relay)


sean
 
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With a relay you will get more voltage to the horn, and thereby a louder horn. I doubt you'll get a satisfactory tone without one. From the relay, you wire the horns in parallel, rather than in series. There are plenty of wiring diagrams examples of you google it.
 
Does anyone adjust horns anymore ?
Most of them have an adjuster screw. The internal contacts gap needs resetting every decade without fail :)
I see a lot of horns junked that could be brought back to life.
 
Brendan W said:
Does anyone adjust horns anymore ?
Most of them have an adjuster screw. The internal contacts gap needs resetting every decade without fail :)
I see a lot of horns junked that could be brought back to life.
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I've brought several car horns back from the dead like that, but bike horns not so much. Exposure to road salt does terrible things, and many budget bike horns are very cheaply constructed, with no adjustment in mind down the line. Otoh, the general quality level of Suzuki electrical fittings wasn't too bad, so there's a chance they didn't cheap out on the horns.
Atm, I'm using a pair of K100 horns with a nice tone, but the 'zuk horns would fit into the original space far better.
 
Brendan W said:
Does anyone adjust horns anymore ?
Most of them have an adjuster screw. The internal contacts gap needs resetting every decade without fail :)
I see a lot of horns junked that could be brought back to life.
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I had to uncrimp the ring holding the 2 halves together on mine to clean the contacts. After that, and adjusting the screw, it works fine.
 
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