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Date:         Thu, 23 May 2002 11:26:02 -0700
Reply-To:     DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Horn Replacement
Comments: To: Chris Hinkle <chris_hinkle@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <E76D08D4-6E61-11D6-A743-003065C3F824@ipmts.ucsc.edu>
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I actually did get the idea of 6-8 horns from MJS.

To quote Michael (from the archives):

>here is the wiring diagram for the optional (in Europe only) 1987 VW >Vanagon dual horns: > >http://www.haywood-sullivan.com/vanagon/dual_horns_wiring_diagram.gif > >To make it work in the US: simply add the relay in slot #6 and run >the wires to your horns > >MJS

Hope this helps...

Dave

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>michael sullivan has done this. i believe he used either 6 or 8 horns. >i don't know his website address, but it has a picture of the horn array >and the wiring diagram. his van is "sunny" the ginster yellow syncro >westfalia.

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>>>When the time comes, I'm going to get a strip of aluminum and mount >>>about 6 or 8 Vanagon horns wired together. The sound is original, and >>>it should stand up the hair on the back of the head of the driver >>>who's attention you want to get... >> >>So how do you wire such a thing?

-- Dave Carpenter

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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. Clarke


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