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 Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 5:36 am |
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Joined: Jan 29, 2011
Posts: 6526
Trade Rating: +10
Location: Westhoughton, Lancashire
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Some years ago the bolt was also the earth, but looking at the picture you have posted there are 2 terminals one will be the feed, the other the return (earth).
Twisted inner core of the wire and a steady handy would work to test it but much better if you can find connectors to fit and then have a fly lead to your power source.
When you checked with the multimeter, did you put a prong into each connector or just the positive and then used the earth on the car body? Sometimes worth checking the continuity of the earth wire.
Also worth checking that you haven't been sent a 24v horn
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 5:37 am |
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Joined: Apr 14, 2010
Posts: 713
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Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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| Spotfist wrote: |
| Cheers chaps, so these bolts could not be used to test the horn then? i just wondered if i could test the horn that way to make sure that the contacts aren't duff as it's hard to believe i have a second horn that doesn't work. |
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the bolts are actually connected to the circuitry or not - I just don't know.
What's preventing you from poking wires (carefully, and keep the copper of the wires trimmed to just outside the insulation) at the two pins in the connector?
You said you got 12V when the horn switch on the wheel was pushed. How did you measure that? Across the pins/wires, or between one pin/wire and chassis ground? If the latter, it could be that the ground wire to/from the horn is borked. You can apply 12V all day long, if the horns isn't also connected to ground, it will not make noise.
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 12:44 pm |
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Joined: Nov 19, 2014
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Thanks for all the answers and info on what will/wont kill me lol
I have metered the two connectors i.e the plastic fitting that then connects onto the horn (the connectors not the plastic that is), the positive and negative which is what showed the 12v. i therefore know that there is a positive and negative going to the horn. What I did today was get some speaker cable and connect the horn directly to the battery, so I connected the wire to the battery and tested to make sure I got 12v then I connected to the horn which is a 12v horn and an actual 206 horn and got zip, nothing, nadda.
So after hours of taking off and putting back and messing about with fuses and relays it appears that the horn is faulty, which I of course has p**sed me right off! Messaged the seller on ebay and he/she basically said send it back and it will be tested but I have to pay for postage so now I am enraged! Looks like someone will be getting zero stars on ebay. 
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