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Linear Actuator with no limits
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Re: Linear Actuator with no limits
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by chainsaw (
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I also use a couple of the Redrok controllers(work great). All the old sat.dish actuators around here use a couple of micro-switches with adjustment for travel at each end. You could possibly use switches at some physical point of travel on each side of your array for control. Probably not the best solution because of weather exposure. With lots of these old dishes still out there perhaps you could find an actuator with the mechanical switches.
Re: Linear Actuator with no limits
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by Basil (
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Thanks I am trying that. Having to build it all. It's slow.
Bad luck or none at all.
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Re: Linear Actuator with no limits
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by BigBreaker on Mon May 5th, 2008 at 08:23:05 AM MST
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Just a silly question, but why doesn't anyone use time of day anymore? or at least run the motor at the equivalent of one arc sec/second once the sensors "zero in"? It seems to me like the rising and setting of the sun would be really simple to track. Clouds seem like a needless distraction.
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