steelpony5555
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I remember back in the 70's I found an old tractor trailer from the 40's-50's in a field that had an electric set of horns on the roof. There was 2 trumpets and about 2 ft long. Stuck them in a Chevy Vega and they went almost the full length of the engine compartment. But they sounded just like more truck air horns and loud as heck. Wish I could find something like those today. The ones from Whitney and Harbor Freight don't sound like truck horns. They are loud but sound like European horns. My son has a set of Grover air horns on his truck and they sound sweet.
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DKean
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They do get the job done. I do try to use them with desecration.
The place I bought them from had another set at 170 db but I thought they would be just a little over the top. My wife gets up set when I don't warren her first.
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me1magoo
Texas
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I have train horns.
I also have two sets of the Wolo "long horn" air horns that are mounted under the front bumper and hooked up with my regular horn button. They sound every time the stock horn does and are pretty loud. However some people are really into their phone conversations and for whatever reason need to get "shocked" back to the reality that I am about to run their dumba$$es over, so those fine folks "get the horns" as my wife calls it- the train horns.
Go to this site -
www.hornblasters.com
I have the "shocker XL" set. I run mine with a constant duty compressor and a five gallon air tank that are in my in bed tool box. The train horns are mounted under the right side of the bed at the front on the outside of the frame rails.
Yes they work and no, to my knowledge no one has died as a direct result of my horns....yet.
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me1magoo
Texas
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Oh, my train horns have a special switch that will only sound when I hold it and it is mounted on the dash behind the steering wheel on the right side, so I have to really intend to use them, they don't just go off when I blow the horn in the truck.
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bstark
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My International came with dual electric "street" horns behind the grill and a Grover single short trumpet air horn that sounded like a wounded goose by itself so paired it with another grover of a longer trumpet and then we had a winner.
Hit 'em all for max effect. Usually necessitated by a young female in a Honda civic doing the lane wandering with a cel-phone glued to her ear.
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Slowmover
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It may have been a post on this forum in re Grover "Stuttertones" on emergency vehicles: Grover Enema-Inducers (was what the Fire & EMT crews called them).
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chadsalt
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Funny, I spend all day at 60+ feet and up to 80,000 lbs........don't remember the last time I had to use the horn, air or electric. I suggest saving your money and pay better attention.
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boondockdad
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OK, looks like I've got (2) actual horns
Would it be possible- with this information- to design a '2-stage' type setup?
Can anybody give me some help on a new electrical schematic?
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gijoecam
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It would take some engineering, but an adjustable-delay relay from Newark electronics or possibly even Grainger would foot the bill. Tie the trigger of the relay into the OEM horn and set the delay at a second or less. A brief toot uses only the stock horns, but a long 'WTF?? A-hole!!' blast brings in the big guns.
For the auxiliaries, I'd use the biggest, baddest ones I could find. Big horns require a big compressor and/or a tank to feed them.
If you want straight-up electric ones to augment or replace the stockers, look into Stebel horns. www.stebel.it They have a decent selection. The Nautilus is a common upgrade on motorcycles, and it's about as compact as you can get when it comes to air horns...
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Hank85713
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There recently was a newspaper article here locally tha the use of horns for anything other than an Emergency was a citeable offense if the leo wanted to write you up! The example given was for someone picking their nose or whatever like most are want to do at a stop light/sign. I think maybe if you go overboard with the horn designs you could possibly get yourself in trouble, it will depend on where you are I guess and the cops. I know I got a ticket in La for passing in an authorized zone, but the case was I exceded the speed limit! He later just gave me a no seatbelt write up ($50) vs a speed ticket ($130).
So I would go with maybe a simple upgrade and not get too carried away with the noise, although I know its sometimes needed but to what effect I cant tell ya. We need to just have better informed/aware drivers and leave all the phones and stuff at home.
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