ve9aa
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TG1860, BX2380 -backblade, bx2830 snowblower, fel, weight box,pallet forks,etc
Was bored so yesterday I started this install. Took a leftover horn from my old Harley Davidson Road King (works fine, but I replaced it last year...now collecting dust) and put it up under the hood by the right front headlight. No wiring. Just put it there to see if it'd melt.
Snowblowed this morning for an hour...didn't melt the mostly plastic horn, so after lunch I wired it up direct to the battery w/ a small 10A car fuse.(I might go to a 5A fuse...I couldn't remember what it drew for current, so stayed with a 10A for the moment)
I am still a little worried
about melting in the summer. (It's a breezy and snowy 10*F/-12*C here today so not a good 'heat' test day)
With the hood/bonnet closed it sits kinda ahead of and above the exhaust manifold. Maybe I am OK.
I'll surely know in the summer when I start mowing !
Don't want to show my button installation as it's kinda Mickey-Moused
for the moment, but I located it to the right of the ignition and pointed outwards, to the right....not towards the operator like would be intuitive. Reason being, if I decide to remove it, or put in a bigger pushbutton, I wanted the room to do so and there was lots of real estate right on the outside corner of the dash. I covered the metal pushbutton with the fingertip cut from a purple nitrile glove and zip-tied it on there. Now you know why I don't want to show a picture of it. I need a better 'horn' label and I am looking for a screw on rubber weatherproof cap...kinda like a primer bulb on a weedeater. They must be out there.
It's plenty loud (103dB IIRC, when I last measured it on the bike) and it's aimed nearly straight out the front of the tractor below the right front headlight, angled down ever so slightly (so as not to collect rain, dust, bugs, grass or snow that might enter the grille area).
I've only needed a horn maybe 2-3 times in the last 6-7 months, but it sure beats yelling !
Here's a poor cell phone pic of the Harley horn on a small bracket.
Snowblowed this morning for an hour...didn't melt the mostly plastic horn, so after lunch I wired it up direct to the battery w/ a small 10A car fuse.(I might go to a 5A fuse...I couldn't remember what it drew for current, so stayed with a 10A for the moment)
I am still a little worried
about melting in the summer. (It's a breezy and snowy 10*F/-12*C here today so not a good 'heat' test day)With the hood/bonnet closed it sits kinda ahead of and above the exhaust manifold. Maybe I am OK.
I'll surely know in the summer when I start mowing !
Don't want to show my button installation as it's kinda Mickey-Moused
for the moment, but I located it to the right of the ignition and pointed outwards, to the right....not towards the operator like would be intuitive. Reason being, if I decide to remove it, or put in a bigger pushbutton, I wanted the room to do so and there was lots of real estate right on the outside corner of the dash. I covered the metal pushbutton with the fingertip cut from a purple nitrile glove and zip-tied it on there. Now you know why I don't want to show a picture of it. I need a better 'horn' label and I am looking for a screw on rubber weatherproof cap...kinda like a primer bulb on a weedeater. They must be out there.It's plenty loud (103dB
IIRC, when I last measured it on the bike) and it's aimed nearly straight out the front of the tractor below the right front headlight, angled down ever so slightly (so as not to collect rain, dust, bugs, grass or snow that might enter the grille area).I've only needed a horn maybe 2-3 times in the last 6-7 months, but it sure beats yelling !
Here's a poor cell phone pic of the Harley horn on a small bracket.
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