Has anyone wired the control box of a US Towers MD750 to control the lowering of the tower from the house(shack). Although the company sells a remote control, they do not seem to want to sell it, imp
I've ruminated about this issue. I'd love to be able to retrofit my tower (when I get it installed) as well. Here's a few issues I've identified: 1. The largest potential liability for the manufactur
I saw on some guy's QRZ page his lowering method. He had an outside camera monitoring his crankup tower. The camera output went through an A/B switch to his pc monitor, so that he could monitor the t
Two issues arise: 1) I haven't seen the wiring diagram, but wiring switches in parallel might result in the possibility of a short circuit. There are ways to do multiple reversing switches that don't
i have a shack camera to watch my tower, but i keep the control out back by a door so I can actually hear the motor drive... i really want to know that it sounds right as it goes up or down The conce
I have an HDX-5106 with the factory control box, which I have never used. I always operate it locally. I also have the "secret" schematics for the tower and remote box. What I don't like about the US
If you have any sort of automation, you want to make sure that there's no possible way that someone could have their arm sticking into it when it starts to move. That typically means either it's a sm