Denny Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 I have never had anything animated by motor in my displays in previous years. This year, I have two wire frame soldiers with motors to move the arms. Tonight, I finally got all my controllers connected and was testing to make sure I had all the channels configured properly when the light bulb (LOR lightbulb?) went on. I remember reading something on PC about not using LOR to control motors. Should I disconnect the motors from the wireframes? Do they have an adverse affect on the LOR cards? Also, I bought four inflatables for this year's show? I was planning to control them with LOR, but what about the blowers? I could rewire just to control the lights, but was planning to let LOR turn on the blowers too. Seems to me (I'm really tired after working on this since 3:30 this morning and my brain is pretty well shut down) that this is a No-No also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 I'm not sure if I was involved with that posting but I had some questions about running motors this summer. What I did is got some SSR to carry the higher voltage and any back feed voltage the motor may create. It worked greatgreg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 I have two inflateables in my display this year, what i found out i had to do with both of my inflateables which only have one cord for the fan and lights, I had to split where the cord for the lights ran to the blower and attach a male receptcle. And i have one channel dedicated to just the blowers for the inflatebles, which i have running the whole show, and different channels for both lights. So far i have had no adverse effect with LOR and operating the blowers, both blowers for the iflateables only generate about 1.5 amps. I hope this helps your situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AI Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Just dont dimm the motors.AI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Puryear Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 I would use a 120volt relay to control the blowers. Let lor turn the relay on (along with a light bulb, this will keep the relay from buzzing) Then the current of the blowers will travel through the relay only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbaxter21073 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Where is the best place to look for 120v relays and what price is a fair price. I see so much out there that it is hard to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny Posted December 5, 2007 Author Share Posted December 5, 2007 I resolved the issue by using a photo sensor to turn the blowers on independently of LOR. LOR then controls the lights in them. The photo sensor/timer will shut the blowers off after five hours -- after the show has ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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