Well this tread is a spin off from the servo thread. I didn't want to hijack the servo thread. The motor I used is from a wrecking yard and I paid an appalling $16, gezz the price of junk is going up! A question in another thread was asked how much torque can a servo handle. Well for most of us it's trial and error including me. What I took away from the thread was "would a wiper motor work but how can you get it to stop or park in the same spot". This was what I came up with yesterday and posted. So if you want just raw on and off repetitive power a wiper motor is the way to go. From another hobby of mine, mechanical switch logic there is so much you can do with it.
Think about this one
You want your say deer head to turn left, right or center but stop at each quadrant at your discretion. Here is a circuit that has not only park in three quadrants but has motor directional control. Humm you say. So what if we can use a Lynx MR 16 to do this. But you say Lynx MR16 only controls grounds to turn on the channels. Well Check out this circuit.
On another note Rudolf is out there swinging his head around at mach ten, Humm! Well what if we took a power transistor stuffed a potentiometer on the gate of the transistor to power up Relay 1 in the circuit? Now we have infinite speed control, Wow! Or maybe use a MR16 channel somehow. Humm directional control, be able to park the head in predetermine spots and control speed. How cool is that!
Of course the ultimate Hack would be to attach a servo amplifier/driver to the wiper motor.
Maybe we could talk Mike and Dave into doing this, it’s beyond me.
BYW it took me longer to write this then to build the cam/switch/relay setup
