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...horn upgrade suggestions?
Written by douglasvanb on 4/30/2010 at 05:45 am

I don't think there is enough room in the stock horn location. I put mine in
the area where the water hose exits the radiator and goes to the water pump. I
ended up separating the horn into two pieces and located the pump a short
distance away from the horn.

My electrical system is setup with an auxiliary fuse panel (
http://www.douglasvanbossuyt.com/2009/12/19/auxiliary-fuse-block-installation-on\
-the-pc800/ ). I run a wire from the fuse panel to the relay to run everything.
I don't have the hotwire mod so I can't tell you if it affects anything. Maybe
next week when I get some time I'll put up a few pictures of my installation.
In the meantime, there is a very good how-to PDF file in the "Files" section of
our IPCRC group. It's called "Stebel Compact Install.pdf" and is what I roughly
followed for my job.

I should also note that I still have my old horn hooked up. It activates in
parallel with the Stebel horn.

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "attitudehats" <MarkoSterling@...> wrote:
>
> Many thanks to everyone!
>
> ...as to the stebel compact hhorn...how tight a fit is this horn in the old
space?...you do any tricks to get it in there? ...do I have to run that horn off
the battery, or can I attach those wires to the aux plug?...I'm already running
the '+' hotwire mod from the R/R to the battery terminal, and I don't want to
screw things up since I got things finally running right ;-)
>
> --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "douglasvanb" <douglas.vanbossuyt@> wrote:
> >
> > There are two options that I know of that are both relatively painless.
They both do require a tiny bit of work though.
> >
> > 1) Add a low-tone horn to the empty mounting bracket. Somewhere in the
files or links there is a description of how to do it and the part number to
order (or maybe that was a recent post here...)
> >
> > 2) Buy a Stebel Nautilus Compact Motorcycle Airhorn (amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Stebel-Nautilus-Compact-Motorcycle-Horn/dp/B000NPRTII )
and install it either in parallel or as the only horn for your bike. There is a
PDF in the files section with a good install guide.
> >
> > I just installed a Stebel horn on my bike over the weekend. My first
"victim" came along just as I was cleaning up my tools. One of the guys that
lives in my house asked me what I was doing. I told him to push the horn button
to find out. He nearly jumped out of his skin when that little air horn
sounded. I suppose that prank is a modification on the age-old "pull my finger"
prank.
> >
> > The low tone horn is the easier installation (less wires) but I don't think
it will get as much attention as the more complex (you have to run a few wires
and such. Not that hard if I can do it though!) and very LOUD Stebel option.
> >
> > Now if only our bikes had more power, I'd put some trumpets off of a semi
truck on my bike. :-)
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of other options? I'd love to get together a list of
possibilities for my links page.
> >
> > --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "attitudehats" <MarkoSterling@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > today I had a close call in rush hour traffic, when this lady just decided
to merge into my lane. I quickly decided to avoid everything, and safely backed
off also pulling to the side away from her.
> > >
> > > so, for the rest of the commute, I pondered this PC's anemic wheezy oem
horn.
> > >
> > > so I have to ask the group brain trust here for suggestions with upgrading
the horn. I'd prefer something that is pretty much a drop in replacement if
possible.
> > >
> > > any better alternatives/upgrades out there?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > Mark 89PC/34k
> > > "the Flying Nun"
> > >
> >
>