SuzukiSavage.com - air horn

alcoa Full Member Offline never let the bastards wear you down Posts: 155	air horn 05/09/09 at 14:56:42 Dose anyone have the stebel nautilus compact air horn on there bikes. Is it a lot louder than our stock horn. On the net i have read good and bad things about it. So I am asking the smartest people on the net, is this a good horn>
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Reply #1 - 05/09/09 at 19:55:16

For a while I had the compressor mounted to the handle bars and the horns in a tool bag with the end cut out and the horns and shower drains pop-riveted to the bag. Worked fine but i ended up going another direction and now have an electric "fiam" 130 db horn that works somewhat OK. I have one of those compact air horns I intend to install on the frame of the sidecar rig when I get to it. Didn't seem to need the horn much in AZ, which was nice. Max

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Gort Ex Member	Re: air horn Reply #2 - 05/09/09 at 20:43:59 Heres what I did. It blasts them to the point that they sometimes jerk in their seat. Being up high, nearly at the car windows' level helps a lot. Its ugly, but I value my safety way more than what someone else thinks of my bike.
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Toymaker Serious Thumper Offline Dragon Rider Posts: 1534 Granite Falls, NC Gender:	Re: air horn Reply #3 - 05/10/09 at 04:51:23 I put a "badboy" air horn on. Since it is a compact unit, it fits where the stock horn is. All I did was run a hot wire from the battery to the relay( which comes with the horn) and used the stock horn circuit to fire the relay. Loud and not ugly... "BTW...Gort I love your horns!!!!!"
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Reply #4 - 05/10/09 at 06:05:22

I too would like to replace the stock horn....... air horn would be nice, but volume is what I am after here.. A bonus if it is easy to install - with name & model.

Loud would be really good !!!

Noticed there was as earlier thread on this subject with 2 suggested models, but no info on whether not they were 'bolt-in' units.

As an aside, on my crane at work I have gathered and installed 16 air horns, a few of them wimpy chrome truck horns but mostly 'real' horns made by Airchime. Yarding, boat and crane whistles - a set of locomotive horns, two 3 foot long ship's horns and a couple other 18 inch foghorns -All fed by 1 & 1/2 inch air line @ 180 psi through 2 whistle valves - one for the 'whistle' bank and one for the 'trumpet' bank. Very cool....very loud.

bolt-in' units.

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Reply #5 - 05/10/09 at 10:48:21

Toymaker wrote on 05/10/09 at 04:51:23:

I put a "badboy" air horn on. Since it is a compact unit, it fits where the stock horn is. All I did was run a hot wire from the battery to the relay( which comes with the horn) and used the stock horn circuit to fire the relay.

Loud and not ugly...

"BTW...Gort I love your horns!!!!!"

Is there a fuse on the hot wire? If so, what size?
And where did you put the relay?

Thanks!

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Re: air horn
Reply #6 - 05/10/09 at 10:59:10

drharveys - FSO wrote on 05/10/09 at 10:48:21:

Toymaker wrote on 05/10/09 at 04:51:23:

I put a "badboy" air horn on. Since it is a compact unit, it fits where the stock horn is. All I did was run a hot wire from the battery to the relay( which comes with the horn) and used the stock horn circuit to fire the relay.

Loud and not ugly...

"BTW...Gort I love your horns!!!!!"

Is there a fuse on the hot wire? If so, what size?
And where did you put the relay?

Thanks!

always put a fuse or circuit breaker in a hot lead to a battery... check the spec sheet for your horn, it'll show a current draw figure in amps... use the next size fuse up from that figure...ie: if the draw is 3.5 amps, 5 amp fuse, 7.5 draw-10 amp fuse, etc....

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Toymaker Serious Thumper Offline Dragon Rider Posts: 1534 Granite Falls, NC Gender:	Re: air horn Reply #7 - 05/10/09 at 11:04:40 yep...I did that. I ran a fused wire to the hot and a separate ground.
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