Controlling Animated Santa

[Forest]

I have built the Dancing Santa from the Winfield Collection (http://www.thewinfieldcollection.com/product/1587/All_Motorized_Designs) the motor it uses is shown on that page as well which links to this page (http://www.thewinfieldcollection.com/product/3138/Motorized_Parts_KIts). I have read some threads and looked at a How To posted by Clyde Dearing about controlling the start by using a relay from Radio shack.

I am still a bit confused. Is there a diffinitive How To on connecting a motorized element into a LOR controlled display?

This is how I understand what I read. Please correct me if I need to understand better.

* I am going to run an extension cord to a static power source.
* In that extension cord, I am going to cut the black wire and connect it to the coil side of the relay.
* I will take a 2 wire cord and connect it to the Common and No on the side of the relay.
* This 2 wire cord will plug into the controller and complete the circuit when I send a 100% on signal from my LOR channel. (Do I send a constant signal or do I send a signal to close the circuit and another signal to break the circuit?)

Please help and Thanks!

[HowardShank]

Forest wrote:

I have built the Dancing Santa from the Winfield Collection (http://www.thewinfieldcollection.com/product/1587/All_Motorized_Designs) the motor it uses is shown on that page as well which links to this page (http://www.thewinfieldcollection.com/product/3138/Motorized_Parts_KIts). I have read some threads and looked at a How To posted by Clyde Dearing about controlling the start by using a relay from Radio shack.

I am still a bit confused. Is there a diffinitive How To on connecting a motorized element into a LOR controlled display?

This is how I understand what I read. Please correct me if I need to understand better.

* I am going to run an extension cord to a static power source.
* In that extension cord, I am going to cut the black wire and connect it to the coil side of the relay.
* I will take a 2 wire cord and connect it to the Common and No on the side of the relay.
* This 2 wire cord will plug into the controller and complete the circuit when I send a 100% on signal from my LOR channel. (Do I send a constant signal or do I send a signal to close the circuit and another signal to break the circuit?)

Please help and Thanks!

Almost got it.

Relay has 2 circuits. One that activates the relay (LOR) and one that you are activating (Santa) (Common/NO and/or NC).

The Common/NO are the two that you want to complete Santa's circuit.

The activation (coil) on the relay is where you wire to your lor circuit.

When you want to turn Santa on, you send 100% ON (and keep it on while you want santa active) from LOR and when you want it off, you set channel to 0% Off.




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