I’m sure you could find a 12 volt one to work.
#AHOOGA horns
neat anchor
However, if you want to use an old school one, you would need to step the voltage down from 12v to 6v. Would have to use a buck converter.
As for overloading the circuit, I doubt that it would. Using ohms law, assuming resistance in the wire stays the same, halving the voltage would double the current.
But since you would be using a circuit to drop the voltage, I don’t see that happening.
glass adder
I’m sure you could find a 12 volt one to work.
All the ones made today are crap chinese ones that are just not loud enough to be heard over the roar of traffic
Like I said, I know I'd need a transformer
I'm just trying to figure out if these horns use more power than a modern snail horn
neat anchor
All the ones made today are crap chinese ones that are just not loud enough to b...
I’ve explained this to you. But since you replied to the first part of my message, I’ll say it again. A transformer steps down AC to AC voltage. What you need is a buck converter, which is a step down converter, to convert the 12 Volts DC to 6 V Volts DC.
glass adder
a buck converter is a transformer.
but semantics aside that doesn't really have anything to do with the question
neat anchor
a buck converter is a transformer.
If you say so but either way it doesn’t really answer your question.
If you look at ohms law, by halving the voltage, assuming that the resistance doesn’t change, you would double the current, in theory. Different characteristics of the 6V air horn would effect this. However, I did just check my horn circuit in my car and the fuse for the circuit is a 15Amp.
I’d be surprised if a 6V ahooga horn went passed 15 amps on the horn circuit.
glass adder
Great.
neat anchor
Not sure if you seen this but someone had a similar question. Let me call my buddy real quick and get back to you.
neat anchor
So my buddy would assume that a 6V horn would not pull more then 5 Amps in his experience, in an instance. Assuming your not just “wailing on the horn”😂