[TowerTalk] Remote control of elevation/lowering

[Bill NY9H]

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 concept of a dropout really for power loss is a great idea,,,,
...and maybe set it to go down  if power is lost ,,,,,

especially if when I get the WX station hooked up to the tower remote 
( 35mph auto drop)

always use some delay relays to control,,,as was pointed out earlier 
this year...
you always want a 2-3 second delay to make certain the motor is 
stopped before you tell it to go up or down.....as you are swapping 
the LIMIT SWITCHES when you flip that switch....


bill /3

At 02:58 PM 10/14/2010, jimlux wrote:
>Fred Serota wrote:
> > 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, impressing on me the necessity to change over the original box, 
> wire new "relays" and how they have never sold one after the fact 
> of the tower sale.
> >
> > It seems to me that one should be able to simply wire a DPDT 
> switch in parallel to the one on the tower and run the switch to 
> the house. What am I missing?
> >
>
>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 do this.
>2) Maybe they're worried about remote control devices that can injure or
>kill, so they discourage their use.  The factory version might have
>interlocks, etc. to make it safer.
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