[Healeys] Late Monday night rant.

[Bob Spidell]

Man, those horns take a lot of juice. That's about the total 
output--25A, give or take--of a stock generator (maybe less at idle).

Anybody ever laid on the horns with the lights on?



On 1/19/2021 7:53 PM, WILLIAM B LAWRENCE wrote:
> The Brown/Green wire is the power supply for the horn. The brown wire 
> is connected to an unswitched power source, the A contact on the 
> regulator.
>
> The wires are correct as is the 50 amp Lucas slow blow fuse. Ref: AH 
> 100 Service Manual.
>
> Bill Lawrence
> BN1 #554
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Bob 
> Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2021 5:51 PM
> *To:* john harper <ah100tech at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Late Monday night rant.
> Nope. All wires were otherwise accounted-for; two were 
> 'cross-colored.' The harness was brand new; I don't know of any that 
> supply extra wiring for separate turn signals, but I haven't looked 
> (would be a good idea, though).
> bs
>
> On 1/19/2021 9:05 AM, john harper wrote:
>> Bob
>> Could it be a wrong wire or an additional one?
>>
>> I and many others in the UK feel that with just two red lights coming 
>> on is very confusing particularly as one enters a corner and brakes. 
>> This confusing array is therefore dangerous. In the UK amber 
>> turn lights have been mandatory for many years. Younger drivers 
>> would not understand anything but amber.
>>
>> The mod we make for the back of the car is to add amber lights 
>> connected on the existing wires but connect both red stoplights to 
>> this additional wire. At the relay box, all is needed is one wire 
>> being redirected to the new wire.
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 16:10, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net 
>> <mailto:bspidell at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Michael,
>>
>>     I feel your pain. My dad got a new harness for our BN2 (probably
>>     from Moss). I thought the harness was good quality overall, and
>>     everything worked except the turn signals. I spent 3 days
>>     double-checking everything; we went so far as to open the relay
>>     box, but everything looked good in there. I eventually discovered
>>     the wiring to one of the rear brake/turn lights was mis-colored.
>>     This really pissed me off, as I'd wired a bare chassis just from
>>     the schematic and it would have been 100% correct if not for the
>>     misidentified wire. I'll probably never sell the car, but whoever
>>     ends up with it will be confused, as a couple of wires are
>>     interchanged from the schematic. Come to think of it, I should
>>     probably label the flaw ... as soon as I finish all the other
>>     stuff needs fixin'.
>>
>>     Bob
>>
>>     On 1/18/2021 11:38 PM, Michael MacLean wrote:
>>>     Was in the engine bay doing some preliminary wiring of
>>>     components tonight. Specifically, the fuse block and the voltage
>>>     regulator.  Looking at a wiring diagram, the way you see in the
>>>     two pictures is mostly correct, but look at what the arrows are
>>>     pointing at.  At the point in the harness where the wires come
>>>     out of the loom for the fuse block, you can see on the right
>>>     hand side the arrow is pointing to a brown wire with a green
>>>     stripe.  Good so far.  Now look what the arrow is pointing at on
>>>     the other side of the fuse block.  It's a large solid brown
>>>     wire. Now in the wiring diagram this brown wire is supposed to
>>>     be a continuation of the brown with a green stripe wire.  That
>>>     brown wire with the green strip that was supposed to be there
>>>     goes to the "A" connection of the voltage regulator.  Now look
>>>     at the picture of the voltage regulator and notice what the
>>>     orange arrow is pointing at. It is the other end of the plain,
>>>     large brown wire!  The electrical connections are correct.  The
>>>     color coding of the harness is not.  I have just started
>>>     wiring.  What else might I find in the rest of the harness? 
>>>     This harness was a gift from my late friend Tom Rocke.  It was
>>>     one of many free parts he supplied for this rebuild.  Don't know
>>>     if I should complain about a free harness.
>>>     Mike MacLean
>>>
>>
>>

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