Has anybody tried controling electric solenoid valves with lor controlers. For halloween I have many decorations that are air operated, was thinking about using lor to control them this year.
I'm useing LOR to control my pneumatic displays. I am using the 110v solenoid valves from ASCO Red-Hat though, so mine is a simple plug into LOR and toggle the circuit just like a light switch. ... Maybe next year I will switch over to the 24v solenoids if I get me the DC board.
I have heard of someone on a holloween board that was using a 24 V.A.C transform and wired it up to be triggered. He wired one connector from the 24v tranformer to the solenoid valve, and than connected the other line with a passive IR switch in line between the transformer and the valve. This allowed the prop to be activated via the sensor when someone walked by.
Donald Puryear wrote: Has anybody tried controling electric solenoid valves with lor controlers. For halloween I have many decorations that are air operated, was thinking about using lor to control them this year.
Yes. I purchased a surplus bank of 7 solenoids that needed 24v DC. I used the LOR CMB-16D card (the new DC controller) with a 24v DC power supply. Worked great!
I've been using LOR to control the pneumatics on my piano playing skeleton for the past couple of years. I use 110v valves and have not had any problems with them except for my sequencings skills!
Plus a few X-10 channels
