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Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
PS, gonna slather the joints externally to prevent future corrosion - also horn terminals. -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Cracking stuff, fellas! Yep - the 'bus' comment was an inadvertant (lucky) use of word. Good news:- I must've done this same job many moons ago (25 yrs+) as I mullered a rather skinny tagged wire as I tried to clean it up - I note there was a twisted wire threaded through the nuts & bolts I wasn't to use - presumably this would have been the original earth from time of manufacture. Anyway, have made a new Earth, reassembled it and the horns blare plenty loud!! Thanks to All for continued on-going help. Photo of previously made earth (2 photos) and my latest (3rd). Let's hope it's another 25 years before it all needs re-doing!! -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
By bus, Doug??!! "The first property we bought here had never been connected to electricity, the nearest cables were 100 metres away. Once the EDF had installed their box I did the whole house - to French norms which meant I needed to do a bit of reading, in French of course 🤔" and with the added fun of that 4th purple (neutral?) wire, Chris??!! -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
415V 3 phase is what was supplying a Burgundian farmhouse (essentially) I once had! Huge 3 pin circular plugs & sockeys everywhere! Was going to be an arm & a leg to take it back to a 'regular' domestic supply voltage. So I left it! My bro' reckons some of the wiring antics I've tried whilst not understanding what he was getting at in his texts should in theory have set the car alight!! 🤣 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Excellent Chaps. As you can tell, once my little stupidity is over, it'll be back to the chubby chalks for me! As my wife says:- if it breeds, it's biology; if it smells, it's chemistry, if it doesn't work, it's physics (and, she adds, or something Colin can't work out!!). -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Non-member you are an electrician?? -
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Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thanks Jeffsds1360, you have properly confused me now!! 🤣🤣 Chris, John & Dick . . . all info duly noted, thanks! Those strips dragginv the road (if they ever reached it were, as I recall, supposed to prevent your static sparking when touching the car body, but from what I heard they actually charged it up!! 😄 -
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Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Good point, Wagger. I might actually just do that. It does look bloomin' awkward to get to . . plus it'd be more obvious, should it fail - and be an indicator for the next owner (my son?) that this continuity wire HAS to be there and is utterly necessary . . . Thanks. Good suggestion & I like my knuckles!😃 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thanks! I hadn't realised that about the u/j. Now, reversing (and probably) fog lamps are also on my list - but am reluctant because of my lack of circuitry capability . . . but that's another project!! -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
And conncting horn earth terminal wire to my fresh bare steel patch also activates them. Pretty bloomin' loud they are, too . . . Will confirm the u/j connecting scenario once I've attempted to undo it, clean it and reassembled. Can't really understand why a u/j won't conduct an earth current - or for that matter, how the car actually earths itself - it sits on rubber boots!! -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thanks! That looks familiar Iain:- however, I took 5 seconds out to stick my preprared speaker wire down the pencil connector hole and earthed to door handle and BINGO! Twin horns. So it HAS to be the u/j at fault, doesn't it?? -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thanks Iain. Will do!! Something for the weekend, sir? Yes please, more horn circuit testing, thanks!! 🤣 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thanks, Non-Member. Probably what my Bro' has been berating me for!! Not testing properly 🤣 As this Forum has probably figured out, I get there in the end but always take the long way round! Over the weekend, I'll find a good earth and poke the other end down the pencil connector hole. I'm guessing this'll indicate a bad earth (blasted u/j, isn't it!!?!). And do the horn test properly!! Best, C. -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Hi again, Colin. I cannot for the life of me understand how this is not working! I simply removed an (the) old horn. Put a new pair on. Used the existing wiring as was, all cleaned up and in the case of the o/s horn, with new spades (due to corrosion) and got nothing! It has to be a simple thing. There's good voltage at the horn. The circuit has to be being 'blocked' somewhere. I hope to have a go at cleaning the u/j and its cabling In the next few days but the various tests my bro' and others have suggested have taken their toll on me for today - particularly as I don't really understand what their oitcome is meant to mean!! 🤣🤣 But yes - I have power to the horns via the brown only cabling and the opposite terminals are hooked up to the brown/black cabling on the secong terminal of each horn. It is beyond me what us not working - but, as with my loss of headlights and several other lighting issues since renovation, everything seems to be bad earth related . . . Best, C. -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Hi Doug. They are new Lucas high & low pair - I tested on the bench with a jump start unit. They both sounded. 12V is on the supply side of the horns in situ and connected up. For me, that's brown only wire. Although I got a phantom reading with a new probe multimeter (and figured I shouldn't have 12V to both terminal on each horn!!) I then used a working 12V bulb with flying leads one end to the earth terminal (brown/black in my case) and the other on the 12V horn terminal with a resultant bright bulb lighting. I ascertained that the brown/black had NO power on them (whew!). And one end of wire to chassis eath point and other to 12V pos horn terminal only produces an initial spark, not an operating horn noise. I guess until I overhaul the filthy u/j (shown in a previous picture), I'll not have eliminated anything more.🙂 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
So . . . I have just connected a wire between the steering box earth I re-made (by extension, hopefully considering it to be the lower part of the column) and the top part of the steering column. Horn pushed. All I got was a spark. Second push illicited nothing . . . -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Ok will do. I'm only just in the garage. Gonna try your column test suggestion, but I think my bro just suggested sumnat similar - brown/black cable removed from horn. Wire affixed to battery earth and other end touched to 12V horn terminal. Just get sparks. I'm assuming your purple/black is my brown/black . . . 😉 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
One wnd of test wire to thebright metal radiator mounting, other end of the test wire I placed on the 12V side horn terminal. No sounding oc horn. -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
The radiator side mount brackets - ground to bright steel -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
I'm a great example of why the school curriculum needs to change!! 😂😂 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thanks Chaps! My Brother is doing his crust with me . . . As one of many previous test suggestions, I have connected a wire from the 12V connected terminal directly to a new shiny earth which he claims should hoot the horn - but doesn't . . . I'm sure I'm not carrying out his Whatsapp test instructions properly . . . 🤣🤣 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thank Iain. I will indeed do these things whilst the WD40 gets to soak that very dry joint!! 🙂 Definitive help indeed! -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Thanks! I need more hans! 😉 -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
Hokie Cookie! Thanks! Looking at the space available I shall have to bung the local Pixie some dough to get hands, spanners & ratchets in! But I will earth the column U/J & see what happens (does the cabin horn button need to be operated consecutively?) -
Horns (Sorry!! I've read previous threads - honest!)
Colin replied to Colin's topic in Electrical System
My only last comment about this is: Why there??!! Just . . . Why there . . . ??? 🤣 (Mind you, I'll be back if I manage to clean it all up and it doesn't work . . . !!! Best, C.