Monster Guts Wiper Motor Interaction

[dkoehler42]

Just a heads up, I noticed that when I had my wiper motor from Monster Guts running, certain channels started behaving oddly.  I rebuilt the sequence and the show in case they had corrupted, ran the verifier(which checked out), and powercycled the boxes and computer.  As soon as I unplugged the wiper motor though, 99% of the problems stopped.  I don't know why it only happened on certain channels, and I did not check my other box.  I have two 1602 units with the blue circuit board.

 

I hope everyone's Halloween was happy!

[LORisAwesome]

You are not supposed run a motor directly from a LOR controller.  That is probably why the problems occured.

 

If you want to use a LOR channel to run a motor, the recommendation is to use a relay.  The LOR channel simply turns the relay on or off and the power to run the motor does not go through any of the LOR channels.

 

Jerry

[Beaver State Rich]

Interesting.  I ran 2 motors all month long directly off of LOR without a single issue.  Beginners Luck?

 

FCG = 110v. gear motor. 

I also ran my casket all month as well and it was a 12v. wiper motor I pulled at the junkyard for $5-power comes from a 110 wall wort.

I used 2 relays to fire the smog machines-worked well.

 

I wonder its something in the circuit board of the MG motor? 

 

Is this something that happened after a while such as long term failure or just new out of the box and it caused issues? 

 

If the first is true I may have to redo my set-up for next year as I don't want to fry my system after only one season of use. 

[dkoehler42]

I haven't seen anything in the manual about not running wiper or any other motors.  The only limitation is amperage.

[1983ss454]

The problem when using motors isn't necessarily the draw when running, it's the draw during start up. Plus is most likely sending interference into the controller. I have read some where on the Lor site not to run motors off of channels

[dkoehler42]

Is there an LOR admin who could weigh into this debate?  I haven't seen anything about a motor, and I've been through the help/manual files.

[LORisAwesome]

Here is a thread that my explain it better.

 

http://forums.lightorama.com/index.php?/topic/23379-triac-failure-frequency/?hl=%2Bmotor+%2Bload#entry222278

 

Jerry