[Healeys] Late Monday night rant.

Wed Jan 20 05:43:48 MST 2021

Lucas horns are the crowns of the prince of darkness. 
I love most Lucas stuff. 
Except Lucas Horns. 
Devils stuff. 
The Lucas horn in my A40 Farina weighs 2.5 Kg. 
Waste of everything 

> On 20 Jan 2021, at 5:02 pm, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>  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> 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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