Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Control Unit for Home Built Rotator from Pitch-Prop Motor
Kevin & Natalia wrote:
Hi All, I acquired a Pitch-Prop motor a number of years ago, with the intention of building a antenna rotator. I still have the intention of doing this, and have checked the motor for operation. This works out very nice, and was able to control it to different speeds with different voltage. I have a construction design for the mounting of the motor and gearbox to the tower, and antenna. The problem I have now, is I wish to construct a suitable control unit, with digital readout, and the possibility of controlling via a mini PIC control, or via PC. I have searched the internet without much success, so my next course of action was to see if anyone on these groups might be of help. So I put my hands up for HELP! Any help would be gratefully received. Thanks in Advance. Kevin, ZL1KFM. Excepting the readout, this should be a fairly routine motor control problem. Depending on what you want to do your control box could be as simple as a current-limited power supply and a couple of switches or as complex as a fully fed-back motion control system. How's your electronics skills, and how fancy do you want it to be? -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/ "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" came out in April. See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
FCC SHUTS DOWN the 'Boy Broadcaster" from ME | General | |||
FCC SHUTS DOWN the 'Boy Broadcaster" from ME | Policy | |||
Hal Turner - the dumbest man on radio - OFF THE AIR! | Shortwave | |||
a page of motorola 2way 2 way portable and mobile radio history | Policy | |||
Tip-of-the-Day: Check your Ham-IV Control Unit | Antenna |