[Healeys] Late Monday night rant.

Wed Jan 20 12:14:00 MST 2021

A pair of FIAMM or equivalent air horns and the compressor for same fits
nicely onto the front face of the passenger toe box of my 100, produces a
loud and pleasant signal and consumes very little power.

Best--Michael Oritt

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 7:44 AM Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
> <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Bob Spidell
> <bspidell at comcast.net> <bspidell at comcast.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2021 5:51 PM
> *To:* john harper <ah100tech at gmail.com> <ah100tech at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> <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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