Yeah, I've utterly failed to find a way to be at all subtle with the Bolt's horn. With my other cars I've been able to figure out a way to lightly tap or quickly punch the horn button to give a very brief "meep!" sound, but the Bolt's horn bellows no matter what I do.With the horn on my Bolt I would have caused a fatal surprise for certain.
You're so right!Yeah, I've utterly failed to find a way to be at all subtle with the Bolt's horn. With my other cars I've been able to figure out a way to lightly tap or quickly punch the horn button to give a very brief "meep!" sound, but the Bolt's horn bellows no matter what I do.
The Spark EV has a quick low-level beep, but it's on the stalk that controls high/low beams. I think it's forward to switch from high beam to low beam or vice versa, and towards you for a quick beep and flash of the headlights. I'm used to forward for high beam and backward for low beam, so there were a few times when I would honk and flash the lights at oncoming cars when all I wanted to do was to switch to low beam. Kind of embarrassing.
Much missed versatile feature that would be useful on any vehicle. Excellent for bringing FoneZombies back to the reality of an aging green light.I believe the Gen1 Volt does have some type of pedestrian warning "horn" or sound on one of the stalks. No such horn on my Gen2 as we have an audible artificial noise generated at low speeds to alert pedestrians of the Volt's stealthy presence.
This is an interesting idea.... flash highbeams to make a pedestrian horn sound. At speed on the highway, flashing lights making a small sound wouldn't be heard (good), at low speeds flashing light AND making a sound would help the circumstance where the pedestrian may have a hoodie over his ears. You'd need a one shot relay... a relay that comes on for a brief period then won't fire again until it is switched off and back on. Easy EBAY item.Perhaps a custom noisemaker, enabled by the high beam wire at the headlight assembly, that only makes noise when the low speed pedestrian warning is also enabled? Even the simple "beep" device of a PC when it passes POST would probably be adequate. My problem is that such a design would beep every time I opened my garage door.
I see a new "Project" in the making!
I have the feeling that a bicycle bell would confuse the heck out of a pedestrian and might even cause them to step further into your path if they think they're blocking a bike.I love the idea of a bicycle bell for a pedestrian horn.
Oh man, I would love to see someone hook this up to their car with some great sound clips like the Price is Right "fail" horns...A very neat little device. Depending on how you name the sound files on the device it will play once per button press, or loop or randomly pick a sound file. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-audio-fx-sound-board/triggering-audio . That youtube video was sooooo freaking long just to get to the good parts...killin' me.
You could just hook up a relay to the highbeam power wire and pull any of 11 pins to ground on this board.
Anyway,
MP3 board ...https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q3U42DM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
PA speaker... https://www.amazon.com/PA-Horn-SPEA...S96QX5CK2VV&psc=1&refRID=0BTN3YNF3S96QX5CK2VV
Small amp: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Storm-...S96QX5CK2VV&psc=1&refRID=0BTN3YNF3S96QX5CK2VV
Youtube how-tos: life is too short. Please just write it down-- less total time spent for authors, literally thousands of hours saved for consumers of a popular advice chunk.A very neat little device. Depending on how you name the sound files on the device it will play once per button press, or loop or randomly pick a sound file. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-audio-fx-sound-board/triggering-audio . That youtube video was sooooo freaking long just to get to the good parts...killin' me.
A very neat little device. Depending on how you name the sound files on the device it will play once per button press, or loop or randomly pick a sound file. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-audio-fx-sound-board/triggering-audio . That youtube video was sooooo freaking long just to get to the good parts...killin' me.
You could just hook up a relay to the highbeam power wire and pull any of 11 pins to ground on this board.
Anyway,
MP3 board ...https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q3U42DM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
PA speaker... https://www.amazon.com/PA-Horn-SPEA...S96QX5CK2VV&psc=1&refRID=0BTN3YNF3S96QX5CK2VV
Small amp: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Storm-...S96QX5CK2VV&psc=1&refRID=0BTN3YNF3S96QX5CK2VV