Shoulda kept the GZ.....sigh

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by Water Warrior

Give it it's own fuse and power up with a relay.

OK, sometimes subtle just doesn't register......... :roll:

The Stebel draws a LOT of power, something like 12 amps/ 150 watts, IIRC.
On a TINY little scooter, that might smoke the battery AND the alternator.
Is SOUNDS like a funny idea but might turn out to be anything BUT funny.

[Water Warrior 2]

There is only one way to find out. Any volunteers out there with scooters.

[dannylightning]

Originally Posted by Water Warrior

to hell with blowing up the battery what about blowing out your ears, 130 db is about as loud as a jet taking off. i don't know if any of you have ever stood by a jet engine but i do every day. when they taxi in with the engine at low power the noise is excessive. if you are really close to it like the guys that guide in the jet you are required to have earplugs and earmuffs. at take off speed (130+ db.) the noise is way more than excessive.

[mrlmd1]

The noise from the horn is mostly directed forward, it's on briefly for second or two, and is meant as a warning to alert others around you who may not be aware of where you are. The standard horn on the bike is almost useless to be heard by someone in a car or truck with the windows shut, the AC and radio on or on a cell phone. It's a safety device and IMHO well worth it, and plan to get one. It's cheap insurance.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by mrlmd1

The standard horn on the bike is almost useless to be heard by someone in a car or truck with the windows shut, the AC and radio on or on a cell phone. It's a safety device and IMHO well worth it, and plan to get one. It's cheap insurance.

NOT wanting to start a fight and even not really disagreeing with you, necessarily, but isn't this interesting. A person who is RABID about helmet wearing to protect your head now seems to have kind of a blind spot when it comes to protecting your HEARING. :shocked: :biggrin:

There ARE other alternatives that are louder than stock but not loud enough to shake the fillings out of your teeth !! You may be right that judicious use won't do any permanent damage but with a ~40% loss in one ear already, I don't think I would want to chance it.

[mrlmd1]

"A person who is RABID about helmet wearing to protect your head now seems to have kind of a blind spot when it comes to protecting your HEARING. :shocked: :biggrin:"

This is one of those sentences discussing 2 things that are unrelated and attributing something to me I never stated or implied. The two statements do not have any relationship linking them together - there is no connection between wearing a helmet and a blind spot to protecting hearing. If anything, if you're on the bike with the helmet on, face shield in place, and the horn blast is directed forward, you are not getting anywhere near 139db directed at your own ears. There is considerable muffling of sound with a good fitting helmet, and even if it did give you you a painful or temporarily injurious blast, IMHO that's better than getting hit or run over by a car by someone not aware of your presence. So wearing a helmet can actually protect your ears from the blast of the horn, I don't really care a crap about the ears of anyone in the car who's about to hit me, and I seriously doubt they also get anywhere near 139db. That sound is measured standing right in front of the horn, not far away, not through a car window, not sitting on the bike in back of it with the helmet on.
So if you were to get one of those horns, then you'd be better off with the helmet on too, right?
And if they were deemed by any "authority" to be too loud or causing injury, would they be legal? It's OK for a truck to have one, but not a car or motorcycle? It's a friggin' safety device, just like the helmet.

And if it did bother your ears for the second or two of the blast, I'd take that any day rather than broken bones or worse, or a wrecked bike.

You want to continue this, add something? I'm not wanting to start again either but here we can go again. :whistle:

[patrick_777]

:yawn:

[mrlmd1]

:haha2: :yes: :curse:

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by mrlmd1

You want to continue this, add something? I'm not wanting to start again either but here we can go again. :whistle:

Not just no but HELL no.
I should have known better.
My bad.

I could say......nope, won't do it.
Then there is.....nope, won't do that either.

Choke, choke......gasp.....damn this is HARD !!! :skull:

[patrick_777]

:itsokay: I knew you wouldn't have the balls... :twisted: