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Old 11-29-2010, 03:41 PM   #1
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Default horn polarity?

Just hooked everything up. As far as I can tell the horn doesn't seem to care about polarity. is this correct?

Also curious if anyone has a good picture of how the stock wiring harness goes from the switch housing to near the radiator. I have it slipped up in between the shell and radiator on drivers side. Seems to look correct but I want to be sure.
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Old 11-29-2010, 03:47 PM   #2
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Default Re: horn polarity?

yes on the horn.wire goes behind rad bracket to horn, light across lower rad, should have 3 clips on bottom of rad to hold wire to right head light.
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Old 11-29-2010, 04:16 PM   #3
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I don't think the polarity makes a difference, otherwise the contact points would be identified for such.

If they do.....I goof up every time I connect the wires to the horn.

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Old 11-29-2010, 05:44 PM   #4
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Since the horn motor is series wound, polarity doesn't matter. When the armature polarity is reversed (by swapping the 2 wires under the horn clips) the field polarity will be reversed also, so the armature will still spin in the same direction.
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