[Healeys] Late Monday night rant.
Tom Felts
tomfelts at windstream.net
Wed Jan 20 17:18:50 MST 2021
have them on my BJ8 for years--never a problem.
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From: Kees Oudesluijs <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:45:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Late Monday night rant.
The Fiamm compressor (at least the period one like Road Master,
Mercury or serie 2000) draws about 20/25A, about the same as two
Lucas electric ones if they are the big ones. The later smaller
H&L ones use quite a bit less.The Fiamm horns sound and look very nice though. They do need
maintainance though. A few drops of light oil every month.Kees Oudesluijs
Op 20-1-2021 om 20:14 schreef Michael
Oritt:
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 #554From:
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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