• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

SMS630 Horn Upgrade

KXcam22

KXcam22

Husqvarna
AA Class
In general I find motorcycle horns kind of wimpy. My bike is for city commuting and I like to use the horn as a weapon to keep the soccer moms from squashing me. My preference is to use a high tone automotive horn, in this case a 130dB high tone Fiam car horn. A car horn also has a more commanding tone. It was tricky to fit and I ended up building an L bracket and having the horn mount horizontally. In the end the fit is great. I was not happy with the husky horn button and don't use the "flash to pass" headlight feature so I hot wired the "flash to pass" to be a second horn button. The rewire was straight forwards, cut and tape the headlight wires off the "flash to pass" switch, then solder 2 thin wires to the pads where the headlight wires were soldered to and fish them inside the housing to the stock horn button. Solder them on top of the existing wires. note: testing them for open/closed with a meter does not work if the horn is connected. I got fooled for an hour thinking I had melted the switch. It is a good mod. Now I have a trigger finger 130dB horn for urban traffic defence. Here's some pics. Sorry but I forgot to take some with the headlight off and while rewiring the switch. Cam.
 

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The 630 horn is truly pitiful and the horn button is strangely hard to find. I usually end up switching the high beam headlight on by mistake.
 
Be curious to see how the horn I used compares the the stebbel nautilus that I have seen other talk about. I saw a vid on Utube that wasn't so compelling, but that is not the best medium to comparison review a load horn. Cam.
 
organ donor said:
The 630 horn is truly pitiful and the horn button is strangely hard to find. I usually end up switching the high beam headlight on by mistake.
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Me too, which I think gets more attention than the horn now that I've got the obnoxiously bright LED's tied into the high beam...
 
igun said:
Curios: Which LEDs did you choose? How much output power?
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They were advertised as TeslaLED's but they're just ADV Monster lights, I went with 2000 lumen, which is more than enough, and 5x better than the stock headlight alone...
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A louder horn is good but I wouldn't give up my flash to pass for nothing. Get used to using it and I believe it is a better attention getter than a stock or slightly louder horn (not better than Stebel or other air horn though). I can modulate the headlight crazy speed with the FTP. Visual beats audible in almost all cases. Soccer Mom with windows up, raod noise, A/C on, stereo on, kids yelling, etc. isn't going to easily hear any horn. Flash a bright light in her eyes multiple times a second though and she'll wake up (hopefully).

Use both.

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I can understand that. I ride with my High beam on in the daytime. I started building a switch that wrapped around the grip for a true trigger finger but then noticed "that button that I do not use", which was very close. If we had more larger roads here maybe. I agree that visual is better than audible. I like those brake light flashers and will need to find a quality one. RDTCU, I love those lighs and already have the solstice euro-beams in my plans. What did you mount to? I was thinking the bottom tripple clamp bolts but yours are wider apart which could be better. Cam.
 
KXcam22 said:
RDTCU, I love those lighs and already have the solstice euro-beams in my plans. What did you mount to? I was thinking the bottom tripple clamp bolts but yours are wider apart which could be better. Cam.
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Mine are bolted through the tank shrouds with with leftover body nut/bolt/washer from the undertray on my 350Z. Black bolt head with a big concave washer is visible on the outside, but only if you're looking for it. I wanted something as solid as possible, the stock mounts for the LED's are a little dinky, but they offer an upgraded version as well.
 
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