[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.  
----- Original Message -----
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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