mrhappyzapp
Member
Hello everyone.
I have been in the electrical trade for close to forty years. I have done basic programming but now have a need to go further.
I would like to control a trolley over an aquarium so as to move my lighting fixture from one side to the other in stepped order. There is a need to keep it simple. My thought would be to have a drive pulley in the middle with two idlers at each end.
The drive pulley would either have holes or some kind of pickup for the proximity switch. This would count the revolutions and then stop the trolley at the next position. There would also be a need for an over travel function prox and a home location prox.
The biggest thing is when a power loss happens the 'on power loss' position would need to be called on.
You can think of this as a DIY very slow encoder setup.
I am not well versed in the drum sequencer but would this be the option I would look for?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
mrhappyzapp
I have been in the electrical trade for close to forty years. I have done basic programming but now have a need to go further.
I would like to control a trolley over an aquarium so as to move my lighting fixture from one side to the other in stepped order. There is a need to keep it simple. My thought would be to have a drive pulley in the middle with two idlers at each end.
The drive pulley would either have holes or some kind of pickup for the proximity switch. This would count the revolutions and then stop the trolley at the next position. There would also be a need for an over travel function prox and a home location prox.
The biggest thing is when a power loss happens the 'on power loss' position would need to be called on.
You can think of this as a DIY very slow encoder setup.
I am not well versed in the drum sequencer but would this be the option I would look for?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
mrhappyzapp