I don’t think it would take much downward force to keep the wheels on track, at least mine has rubber wheels on both sides hugging the rail. Just hang a small weight of any type to keep the wheels on the rail, and the pulley where you want the light to go up and down. Then hook a small cable from the rail motor to your light through the pulley.I have a lightrail, how would that need to be set up tho? Pulleys yeah OK I get that, but I can't picture what would need to be done. It would have to be the downward force to keep the wheels on the track, how would that be able to be set up?
The weight and the pulley yes that's a good way to try it, I thought of the pulley under the motor but the the weight would be the way to keep the downward force. Very good man thank you.I don’t think it would take much downward force to keep the wheels on track, at least mine has rubber wheels on both sides hugging the rail. Just hang a small weight of any type to keep the wheels on the rail, and the pulley where you want the light to go up and down. Then hook a small cable from the rail motor to your light through the pulley.
A small winch with a cycle timer or two could be made to work as well, or wire a switch similar to the one on the light rail to reverse direction.
Yeah I also saw the torque motors, why are they called worm drives?You could also use a worm drive motor and a 12vdc power supply, something like this one https://amzn.to/3q7KS9Q but to your specs. Then you just rig something to switch the polarity of the power supply to reverse the direction of the motor.
What would the stranded wire be for? Thanks.I would suggest stranded wire
No, Sir. I met the guy who did, though.I think @ttystikk had some kind of vertical light mover set up for hps. i read his thread years ago. I just went back and skimmed through but couldn’t find what I was looking for. It’s a long thread lol Maybe he will stop in and confirm about a light mover.
Good suggestion. The light rail motor should work if a balancing counterweight is added to ease the load on the motor & traction wheel.What about using a light rail and a simple pulley or something similar? Just thinking of what I have sitting around, Seems like it should work.
So no vertical wind/unwind ones? The idea of using a standard light rail is a good one but I don't have the space, the wind/unwind would be how I'd have to do it.No, Sir. I met the guy who did, though.
I did build light movers; one was built on a mountain bike frame and made the light go around a 5' diameter circle every 3 1/2 minutes. It worked great but just spread the yield out over a big area.
The other one was back when COB LED lights were silly expensive. This one was going to be baller; we had built a frame for 24 of my water cooled modular LED fixtures and we were going to put it on a track to go through a light tight door and run two rooms on a flip! We had the plumbing, power and everything worked out but gave up because by the time we worked out the kind of overhead rail we'd need, it was clear that chips were going to drop in price.
Guys, I've built and tried some CRAZY shit in my time, so when I say I've developed something worthwhile, you can take it to the fucking bank.
And by all means, keep going through my thread; it's almost ten years of iterations, blind alleys, broken parts and making things better and better! In this era of instant gratification, who even does that anymore?
Yes it's a good idea and I have a lightrail but I need to make everything vertical now for the space I need.Good suggestion. The light rail motor should work if a balancing counterweight is added to ease the load on the motor & traction wheel.
Winches don't do well when they continuously work. They are only usually rated to run for around 1-2minutes before they want to overheat etcAny small electric winch should be able to handle that. They cost though. Check Harbor Freight.
LOL who said I didn't?So no vertical wind/unwind ones? The idea of using a standard light rail is a good one but I don't have the space, the wind/unwind would be how I'd have to do it.
That water cooled thing sounded nice, shame you didn't build it.