hi guys,
i actually had to write code today, so not as much progress as I would have liked on the pickup winder. Still, I did make some progress in my lunch break!I installed the electric motor into its mount, and also screwed in the magnetic switch. The mount seems to work! Take that year 7 woodworking!!
Over the weekend I glued in some small pieces of wood to create a bullpen for the power supply. Today I was able to get the power supply put in there and wired up to the end of an extension chord that I dismembered.
To test the output voltage (24V) I wired it up to the counter. It worked! The counter lit up with 000000. I couldn't resist then hooking my magnetic switch up to the counter as well. Hmm no counting?Turns out you also need to supply a voltage to the switch so that the counter is actually receiving a signal with each blip. Doh! Idiot. A couple more wires later and success!! Now the power supply is humming and she's counting quite happily.
Next step is to get the electric motor controller connected to the power and to the motor to test the forward, backwards and speed controls. Fun, fun!
cheers,
Gav.
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