Hideaway headlights electrical motors

[KohrtRacing]

Excited to finally hook up these hideaway headlights.

Not an electrician, so this is a little bit of foreign territory, but I believe I’m going down the right path by going with a double-pole, double-throw switch that will allow polarity/reverse polarity both to push and pull the actuator piston, lifting or dropping the gates.

I’ll have to fabricate custom brackets to actually mount the motor. Has anyone utilized these electric ones instead of the vacuum canisters? Would love to see how you mounted them.

Video of Actuators

 

[pnora]

Those actuators need limit control switches. If they travel to far they will tear the plastic door mounts and stops off. They were also designed with a control box that worked off the limit switches. You have a lot of work ahead of you to try to fab everything up.

 

[KohrtRacing]

Those actuators need limit control switches. If they travel to far they will tear the plastic door mounts and stops off. They were also designed with a control box that worked off the limit switches. You have a lot of work ahead of you to try to fab everything up.

Agreed that there will be a fine tune needed for open and close. Thinking some play between the two will benefit in the form of a wire or something.

Fabricating a bracket is the easy part.

 

[KohrtRacing]

Well, this test went a lot better than I thought it would! Mocked it up and it’s almost dead nuts right off the bat.

Can’t post a video inside this thread, but I have posted a follow up in the original link.