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 but they do have max extensions that are easy to line up with full close. Pretty simple actually.

That said, Thinking some play between the two will benefit in the form of a wire or something. That allows for flexibility as it turns the corner upward and downward.

Fabricating a bracket is the easy part. Simply aluminum angle. May tig a telescoping tube to fit the hole perfectly on the actuators body.

 

[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.

 

[KohrtRacing]

I think just a simple aluminum angle bracket off the bumper support facing towards the inside of the vehicle will do it.

 

[pnora]

Agreed that there will be a fine tune needed for open and close but they do have max extensions that are easy to line up with full close. Pretty simple actually.

That said, Thinking some play between the two will benefit in the form of a wire or something. That allows for flexibility as it turns the corner upward and downward.

Fabricating a bracket is the easy part. Simply aluminum angle. May tig a telescoping tube to fit the hole perfectly on the actuators body.

Seems like you have all the answers so all I will say is best of luck.