Elektrickery (again)

[enabb]

HELP PLEASE...........

Instructions say,

For vechical with "HOT" lead to horn button use diagram 1

For vechical with "GROUND" lead to horn button use diagram 2

So Ladys and Gents my question is "wots the horn button on a 1150 gs"

Hot or Cold

cheers
enabb.

 

[Ian Whinnett]

Hot I think

I presume the question is whether the horn switch is carrying / switching a positive (HOT) or negative (GROUND) current.

The horn switch switches a positive (HOT) current, this is true for the 1100 version. A test is to remove the wire(s) from the horn, isolate the coloured one and put a test light between it and ground / earth / a suitable spot on the frame.

Press the horn and the light should come on, if it does then the horn switch is hot.

If the light is on all the time even before pressing the horn button the horn button is ground.

If nothing happens check the bulb, if still nothing then the horn switch is ground.

I hope this makes sense.

If you need more help just ask, if it needs talking about then give me a ring 07986 202117. Am about most of the weekend.

Ian

 

[enabb]

Cheers Ian,
Thought it might be hot, but am not that clued up with electrics so it would have been a guess.

Might fit it tommorro, whoops I mean today so thanks for the advice..


cheers

 

[Deleted account W]

Your profile says you have an 1150.

The horn is fed via a relay (surprisingly enough called the horn relay)

This is where it gets tricky if you don’t do lectrickery.

The horn relay is a way of powering the horn using the switch on the bars while not having a positive feed present, a good idea as it gets wet (the indicators and lights work in the same way)

The horn relay has the positive feed on one side of its contacts and the horn connected to the other side. The horns will sound when these contacts are closed.

You’re with me on this aren’t you?

The contacts in the relay are closed by power being applied to an electromagnet inside it, lets call this the coil.

What happens here is the magnet (the coil) has a permanent positive feed on one side and the other side of the coil requires a negative supply to make it do it’s stuff. This is the wire that goes up to the switch and back.

So you press the switch, the coil gets a negative feed and it closes the contacts powering the horn.

I hope that clears things up, it’s certainly given me a headache trying to explain it.

 

[enabb]

OH MY GOD !

Think I,ll stick to shouting then