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Horn suggestion

I was looking at the HELLA Twin Horn set until DTMWAP's post showed up above in this thread. Switched my thoughts to the SoundBomb MINI.

Looked at several sellers, everyone pretty much had the same price, $29.95 for the SoundBomb MINI from Denali. Amazon had free shipping. Other places were roughly $6 to $8 for shipping.

Much as I'd prefer to buy from a smaller shop, I'm not paying a 25% shipping fee premium. Ordered it from Amazon, should arrive in 2-3 days.

I'd need to mess with a relay and alter the original set up to get significantly louder.
 
halfSpinDoctor said:
NCX19 - I just installed a pair of Hella Horns after reading this post, and they are great! Thank you for the suggestion.

They are not super loud, in my opinion maybe only ~2x louder than stock, but I think that the two-tone sound is much more attention-grabbing. I followed your suggestion and crimped together a custom spade connector split wiring harness to hook them up.

I was able to mount them in a spot where they are far enough away from the engine that they will hopefully not get too hot, and high enough up that I can still remove the bottom fairing without first removing the horns. I may need to disconnect the wires to refill the coolant, though.

Original (left) vs. Hella (right):

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Making custom wiring:

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Close up of mounting and wiring:

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same only you did a nicer job on the jumper assy. I used split loom.
 
DTMWAP said:
Following the same route here. I look at your pics and cannot find an angle where I can see clearly how you mounted the twin horns. Are you using the OEM horn bracket? Did you changed something on this OEM bracket? Or made a custom one?
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used original horn mount tab with the included tabs
 
DTMWAP said:
I took all measures at about 1 meter but not directly in front as I was performing the work in my shed. I did the very same for both horn configurations. To me, only relative numbers were important as different apps have different dB numbers for the same noise. App A showed the exact amount of decibels for both horn configurations while App B showed a slight difference; the OEM horn was very slightly louder...
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the hellas are a wee bit larger and there are 2, so double the surface area radiating sound. To my ear they were certainly louder. I was working on the bike right next to the house, and testing with the sound in close quarters, the twin hellas were a lot louder.Like ear protection loud in that confined location. driving down the road, they were louder, but not wolo bad boy. all subjective of course, but certainly better.
 
melensdad said:
Anyone know how many amps you can pull thru the stock horn circuit wiring without frying something?
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whatever the fuse is rated for. I believe 7.5A you could push it to 10 with a different fuse if its intermittent use, eg a horn. Of course warranty, safety ... yadda yadda. If you are putting a heavy duty horn on, you are better off running a fused 14awg lead off the battery, and switch with a relay with the original horn lead. Horn will get all the current it needs for full effect.
 
Denali SoundBomb MINI was dropped off by FedEX a little while ago. Looking to install it as soon as I don't have babysitting duties. So probably tomorrow. Hoping the horn is louder than a hAngry baby, the factory horn isn't even close with its friendly "tweet tweet" tone.
 
Went out to install the SoundBomb MINI.

Read the instructions. Installed per instructions. Blew the circuit, fried the 7.5 amp fuse.

Attempted with a spare fuse. NO SOUND.

Returning to Denali. Defective? Damaged in shipping?
 
melensdad said:
Went out to install the SoundBomb MINI.

Read the instructions. Installed per instructions. Blew the circuit, fried the 7.5 amp fuse.

Attempted with a spare fuse. NO SOUND.

Returning to Denali. Defective? Damaged in shipping?
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Sorry to hear it. Do I recall this out-of-the-box failure as reasonably common with the Denali horns, or am I thinking of a different horn?
 
Huh. The SoundBomb Mini I installed last month has worked from the first. The only thing I did was make some extensions for the harness. Perhaps you got a dud.
 
melensdad said:
Oh and now my ‘check engine’ light is on too.
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When check engine light comes on, stop, place in neutral, put kick stand down (dont turn off the engine) and count the blinks-long blinks then short blinks (or it could be short and long-dont remember)...If 86, communication error to the display-when i got my check engine light last year, I was counting 95, there is no 95 so it was 86. If 86, disconnect the battery connections, clean the connections and the posts (I used wire brush and sand paper). Since I had the battery disconnected, I went ahead and disconnected the display cable and reset it. I havent had the check engine light since....It was probably the battery connectors causing the problem. I had a bunch of cables running off the battery (put in a wire block since then)...and one of those could have caused the problem.
 
Well I’d go try that but it looks like magic happened and it went off. I needed to return a tent to UPS so out I went and the light was off when I started up.
 
Sent off an email to my local Honda dealership inquiring about buying a horn from them. Specifically asking for a 'direct fit' replacement aftermarket horn that is louder than the stock horn.

I really like my local dealership. Its a family run operation, owner runs the shop, his daughter is at the parts counter, wife runs the office. They have several other employees, everyone there seems like good people. Only problem is its never on the way to anywhere I would normally go so I rarely shop there.

After the fiasco with the Denali horn figured I'd ask the dealer, if they offer me a Denali I'll buy it from them and install it on his lot as it requires only a 10mm wrench. If they offer something else I'll probably still install it on the lot. Won't be as fast as getting another shipment from Amazon but I really rather prefer to support independent businesses anyway.




NCX19 said:
the hellas are a wee bit larger and there are 2, so double the surface area radiating sound. To my ear they were certainly louder. I was working on the bike right next to the house, and testing with the sound in close quarters, the twin hellas were a lot louder.Like ear protection loud in that confined location. driving down the road, they were louder, but not wolo bad boy. all subjective of course, but certainly better.
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I noticed that Hella has a couple different SIZES of dual horn set ups. I'd have to think that different sizes would yield different volume and also different amperage draw on the system.
 
So the horns I picked up from the local Honda dealer as "direct fit" do not directly fit.

Honda's horn comes with a stud that fits a 10mm nut.

The replacement horn's stud fits a 12mm nut.

No biggie except the HOLE that you mount it into fits a stud diameter that perfectly fits the Honda OEM horn. The replacement horn's stud won't fit into the hole. Hmmm. I could bolt an extender to it but that would require lengthening the wires to reach the new location of the horn.

Emailed the Honda dealer, returning the 2 horns. They are WOLO brand.
 
Picked up another new Denali SoundBomb MINI today.

Got home. Installed it. Didn’t work. stock horn works. WTH?
 
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