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#1 nathansminis

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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:03 PM

hi all.

just a quickie. i have searched, and read all the topics on fitting air horns. i want to get mine fitted tomorow if i can. fed up of people cutting me up and taking the mick. my minis being heard!!!

i just want to know, where can i take my power from for the relay? the most popular solution on the threads i read was either straight off the battery, or the terminal on the inner wing solenoid. i dont have enough wire for the first option, and a piggy back type starter, so no wing solenoid.

i want it to use the standard stalk horn button.

can anyone give me a simple run through of wiring? its all going to be mounted in the front somewhere.

any help appreciated.

thank you!! :)

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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:10 PM

hi all.

just a quickie. i have searched, and read all the topics on fitting air horns. i want to get mine fitted tomorow if i can. fed up of people cutting me up and taking the mick. my minis being heard!!!

i just want to know, where can i take my power from for the relay? the most popular solution on the threads i read was either straight off the battery, or the terminal on the inner wing solenoid. i dont have enough wire for the first option, and a piggy back type starter, so no wing solenoid.

i want it to use the standard stalk horn button.

can anyone give me a simple run through of wiring? its all going to be mounted in the front somewhere.

any help appreciated.

thank you!! :)



Don't know what you set up is like but I managed to fit my Nautilus Air Horns on the left hand side as you look under the bonnet. Looks neat too. I took the Power from the Solenoid Terminal as you state. Do you have a permanent live anywhere else in the bay or can you possibly take the wire just inside to the permanent 12V that is used for the Radio Memory ??

#3 mini mark

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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:10 PM

with mine i just used the origional wire off the normal horn and just earthes it bu i dont think you are ment to do that but that is the easist way but i think it can be dangerous without using a relay.
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#4 nathansminis

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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:35 PM

i have a relay and everything, just need to work out how to wire it up. permanent live off the radio isnt up to the job of powering an air horn compressor is it?

and i dont have the wing mounted solenoid, which is why im asking. dont know where else to take it from. unless it can go on the piggy back starter with the positive battery cable?

#5 lrostoke

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Posted 07 March 2009 - 09:31 PM

yes you can still use the battery terminal on your piggy back solenoid.

Just copied this out of an FAQ I did on another site. should help

This guide will work for both twin tone air horns and musical, main difference you will need to find room for all the horns on a musical set..

1st find a good place to mount the horns. I chose under the n/s wheel arch because the slats in the inner wing made an ideal place to clamp the horns to...I made a bracket to mount the horns to first, then clamped that bracket to the slats. Make sure if you mount them here they do not foul on the wheel, check wheels at full lock both ways

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Next the compressor unit, if you use the tubing that comes with the kit you will have a limit how far from the horns you can mount the compressor. I was lucky there was already a hole in my bulkhead sealed with a gromet that I was able to utilise for the mounting of the compressor

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Next wiring find a suitable place for the relay, again no servo on my mini so I have a nice open space to mount it

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On the compressor you will find two terminals postive and negative, the positive you run a cable from that to a terminal marked 87 on the relay.
The negative I connected to the same bolt that mounts the compressor to the bulkhead.

Next on the relay terminal 30 you connect to a permant live feed, the live side of the starter solenoid is a good source for this, I've been a bit rough here in that I ran out of ring connectors so the cable is clamped by the two ring terminals already on the solenoid, I will replace this once I buy some ring connectors. You will need to fit a 30 amp inline fuse on this cable.

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Terminal 86 on the relay goes to earth, again Ive used the car body, the black wire attached to the mounting screw of the relay

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Finally Terminal 85 goes to the horn switch, easiest way of doing this is to unplug the spade connector that plugs into the existing horn and plug your cable you have attached to terminal 85 into the wire that went to the horn.

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Posted 07 March 2009 - 10:08 PM

irostoke,

i read your guide in another topic while searching. Thank you very much for your help, will get these fitted tomorrow.

cheers!!! :)

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Posted 10 May 2010 - 12:28 AM

thankyou irostoke!!!!!! you have no idea how hard it has been to find just a few simple pictures of a step to step guide.THANKYOUUUUUUUUUU
ONE thing though....where is my permant live feed ? :/
sorry for my stupidity

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Posted 10 May 2010 - 10:42 AM

found this helpful ta
one question i was told to put the compressor as close to the horns a possable,dose this make a diffrent?




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