Stebel Nautilus Horn

[Katabolism]

Just wondering, isn't the standard horn in the AH loud enough?

I know the TS as a very loud horn.

For me nope, the AH is a pretty weak horn.

Its almost as bad as the one on my Husky, and thats not the best either.

This one is far far better and louder which is great.

I forgot to take a quick vid of the stocker horn, just as a comparison before i got it installed, but im sure there are plenty of those around.

Ends up being a Piece of cake to put in as well, just make sure you have a 25amp fuse for it.

[JohnBu]

25amps!

It's drawing 300 watts of power?

[Katabolism]

25amps!

It's drawing 300 watts of power?

Well no.

The stock fuse is 15amp, and its blown once already with that, so the 25a one was just the one the guy chucked in there, it may only draw 16A, not sure, but that is enough to blow a 15A fuse at least.

EDIT: Bit of checking into it whilst im doing nothing at work, it needs a fuse rated to >19amps, so really a 20amp will do the job.

[JohnBu]

drawing 16 amps will not blow a 15amp fuse.

a 15amp fuse may sustain 25 or 30amps over a few seconds (horn) without blowing.

anyway, is the fuse for the horn, or protecting the cable?

[Katabolism]

Well when i "think" it died, i was on the horn for a good 5 or so seconds, so i believe that would have done it.

Nah no inline fuse, just the standard one that is in the fusebox under the bonnet.

What was odd, is that the manual says that slot 8 is for the horn and its a 15amp one, yet there is only a 10amp one in slot 8, and that the one that blew was slot 20, which was for the a/c iirc. That was the one that got replaced with a 25amp, from the 15amp.

[delemonte]

If you're still blowing the fuse for the horn, then they didn't utilise a relay (or didn't wire it in properly). If it draws 19 amps and the stock one has a 10 amp fuse, it's very dodgy to just replace with a larger fuse without checking the factory wiring can carry the current! They should being using a relay so the fuse in the fusebox sees about 50mA and then have a 20 amp fuse in line with the relay source.

[Katabolism]

That was my thoughts as well, the horn comes with a relay, and I questioned why it wasnt used, and the guy said " these cars have one already " ..... I wasnt to impressed there, but it wouldnt be that hard to put one in anyway.

The fuse that blew wasnt the actual horn one that the manual says either, so im not sure whats up with that. Was there a misprint in the manual ?

So far the fuse is working, will see if it blows again.