On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:57:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello everyone, I'm trying to rig up a vent door in a kit-car so I can | open and close the vent remotely. Its would be tough to run a stiff | cable to the door due to its location, so I was thinking of using a | heavy duty landing gear servo located at the door, and a simple on/off | switch under the dash to activate the servo. My question is what I | would need to do to run the servo off the 12 volt car system? My | electronics knowledge is limited but I'm do ok with a soldering | iron! Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
To make this soaring related, I assume you take your kit-car to the flying field with planes in it? :) As for the 12v part, that's easy -- get a 5 or 6 volt voltage regulator. Radio Shack sells them, and they're cheap. They'll cut your 12 volts down to 5 or 6 volts with very little fuss. (To make this further soaring related, this is basically just what a BEC is.) As for what activates the servo, that's a bit harder. It's not just a switch -- you'd need a little bit of electronics to emit the proper signal to the servo. It might just be easier to buy an electrical latch meant for car use. That you could activate with just a switch and no electronics. -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
