Bad Boy air horn and stock horn wire connectors

[burg650]

I was given this air horn and I was wondering if I can use the stock air horn wires to power it since it's a 10 amp fuse line, I connected the air directly to the stock wires and it blows but not sure if this is safe or not.

 

[retread]

I've got a Stebel Nautilus, Aerostich calls it an Earcannon, that is pretty much the same as your horn. It came with a relay, 20 amp if I remember right. Anyway, a couple of positaps, wired the relay in parallel with the stock horn, hooked the air horn to the relay, no worries, took about 20 minutes.
I mounted the relay right behind the stock horn, drilled a hole in the frame tab behind the front fusebox and mounte the horn there.

john

 

[NJERNIE]

I put the bad boy on my RS and I used the stock relay, had no problems with it all. Just moved the location of the unit in order to have more room. Horn works fine.
:yes::yes:

 

[wyliec]

I've got a Stebel Nautilus, Aerostich calls it an Earcannon, that is pretty much the same as your horn. It came with a relay, 20 amp if I remember right. Anyway, a couple of positaps, wired the relay in parallel with the stock horn, hooked the air horn to the relay, no worries, took about 20 minutes.
I mounted the relay right behind the stock horn, drilled a hole in the frame tab behind the front fusebox and mounte the horn there.

john

:thumbup: Have the same set up as you and did the exact same thing.

 

[Littlebadwolf]

I've got the same exact horn...plug and play install, direct replacement for your stock horn. It's a nifty little horn...:yes:

 

[M2Wild]

Spyder's wire must be more beefy than the ones on my Tacoma. I direct replaced one of the two oem horns on the Taco with the Bad Boyz and had to lay on the horn to drive a moose off the interstate. And as soon as I turn on the hazard blinker (which is on the same circuit as the horn), the fuse popped. I am planning on adding a second Bad Boyz but both of them will go on a relay.

 

[Sopher]

Issue with new Bad Boyz horn from WOLO;

When I wired it up I get nearly nothing but small buzzing from the horn. I tried connecting directly to the battery terminal. Same thing. I conenct the horn to a hobby 13amp AC 12v power supply and the horn blows fine.

Is this one a dud? Or is it because my battery just doesnt have enough amperage to powert the horn?

Corrective action?

 

[Sopher]

Anyone?

 

[fastfraser]

Try switching the wires around . Should work fine .

 

[Sopher]

I did.
Just a buzzing as if the battery does not have enough amperage. It does work from a powered 12v 13amp bench power supply.

 

[Y Rider]

I did.
Just a buzzing as if the battery does not have enough amperage. It does work from a powered 12v 13amp bench power supply.

This doesn't make sense. The Spyder battery can supply much more current than your power supply. If the Spyder battery has enough to crank the engine it will have more than enough to activate the horn. You have a bad wire connection to the battery or wired incorrectly. Also, make sure you are using at least 14AWG wires between the horn, battery and relay contacts.