Sunday 3 May 2009

The Farce of the Solenoids

The fuckers are the bane of my life.

So the conversion went like this:


Pull solenoid + addition


= push solenoid

Which didn't work. Excellent. SO..

Plastic addition, with a thread made by hand = shit wonky thread.

SO

Lathe to make straight thread

= Straight plastic addition to solenoid

And working 48V solenoid!


Which I now can't power because I bought a power supply (or 3) with the wrong ampage. Well done me. I'm starting to wonder if the drawers are going to be worth making using electronics, I may have to just re-make them using a spring loaded mechanism like the last set. Balls.

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