Let me just say I had a great time with this install. Thanks for all the help from Org. members. I hope I can contribute to someone now with how I did my install. I must be from the "show me state" in another lifetime...I want to state that my install is a little unorthodox in location. Time will tell if there will be a heat issue. What I did was place the horn horizontally. The Nautilus Air horn instructions said to mount it vertically. One org. member pointed it out with actual pics of the install web page. But I thought to myself..well at least one of the voices in my head brought up the topic.."Why does it need to be vertical? It is not like a refridge unit, or a mercury float switch...so that is what I did. See previous air horn install by org. member for how he modified the horn. This horn is way too big to put under there.
1. pic of under the tank, behind the engine, on top of tranny.
2. pic of air compressor laying behind engine horizontal (I tested horn multiple times in horizontal position.
3. pic of air compressor wrapped in insulation, wrapped in 4 layers of aluminum foil for heat protection...this is the big question that will be answered in time...will the heat cook the compressor??????
4. pic of relay...thanks guys for the help. 2 green wires go to front of bike and plug into the old wiring harness for horn. Doesn't matter if you switch them..won't hurt anything. these wires trigger the event when horn button is pressed. These are 18 guage. They close the pole in the relay and allow the 12 guage hot wire to send a heavier load to the compressor. I really like the heavy compressor low in the bike and centered in the bike instead of behind the lights and in the front of the bike...puppy probably weighs 2 lbs.
2 red wires...one goes to positive pole of battery...the other to the pos pole of battery. These are 12 guage wires. Maybe overkill...but that is just me.
5. pic of ground wire (also red 12 guage) to grounded screw that also has ground strap to negative pole of battery.
6. pic of green wires from harness plugged into wiring harness of horn before I taped the poo out of it.
7. pic of homemade bracket from some sort of curtain hanging project. I might change this later if it vibrates too much.
8. pic of mounted horn above radiator...can see nipple of horn and vacumn hose attached.
Don't use this horn in the garage with your dog there...He is a big German Sheppard and this was his immediate rxn....This is one friggin loud horn and I hope it wakes up the young girls who are trying to talk on the cell, eat Krispy Kream, and doing their eyebrows while they drive...
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1. pic of under the tank, behind the engine, on top of tranny.
2. pic of air compressor laying behind engine horizontal (I tested horn multiple times in horizontal position.
3. pic of air compressor wrapped in insulation, wrapped in 4 layers of aluminum foil for heat protection...this is the big question that will be answered in time...will the heat cook the compressor??????
4. pic of relay...thanks guys for the help. 2 green wires go to front of bike and plug into the old wiring harness for horn. Doesn't matter if you switch them..won't hurt anything. these wires trigger the event when horn button is pressed. These are 18 guage. They close the pole in the relay and allow the 12 guage hot wire to send a heavier load to the compressor. I really like the heavy compressor low in the bike and centered in the bike instead of behind the lights and in the front of the bike...puppy probably weighs 2 lbs.
2 red wires...one goes to positive pole of battery...the other to the pos pole of battery. These are 12 guage wires. Maybe overkill...but that is just me.
5. pic of ground wire (also red 12 guage) to grounded screw that also has ground strap to negative pole of battery.
6. pic of green wires from harness plugged into wiring harness of horn before I taped the poo out of it.
7. pic of homemade bracket from some sort of curtain hanging project. I might change this later if it vibrates too much.
8. pic of mounted horn above radiator...can see nipple of horn and vacumn hose attached.
Don't use this horn in the garage with your dog there...He is a big German Sheppard and this was his immediate rxn....This is one friggin loud horn and I hope it wakes up the young girls who are trying to talk on the cell, eat Krispy Kream, and doing their eyebrows while they drive...
