I was looking at rocketman’s headlight relay kit with the Probe headlight motor wiring already in place. The only thing about the electric headlight doors is that on the videos I have seen they seem to move too fast and appear a little jerky.
I like the slow, laid back motion of the vacuum system where you can just tell is a smooth, cushioned travel when the doors go up and down.
If I put a resistor or potentiometer in line with the motors and drop the voltage, that should, in theory, slow them down so I can dial in the speed I see fit.
Any comments, opinions, editorials?
might you harm the motors by reducing voltage? Kinda like a brown out when you don’t get sufficient ac power to your house and your fridge burns up? Just guessing. How do they regulate fan speed on the blower motor? Those last forever.
DC motors should just slow down with less voltage.
Only A/C really doesn’t like to be run with less than rated voltage. If you want to slow down A/C motors, you need a variable frequency drive.
I emailed the rocket man to see if it could be an upgrade for a fee. We shall see.
Is this more to what you’re thinking about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM3Owvk1Hjc
Yeah, I saw that video the other day.
I like the idea of it, but I don’t want to cut into the headlight assembly to mount that. Plus, having to undo linkages if it fails, which it will, in the rain of course is another downfall.
Plus, those things have enough ass to really damage something if the control box messes up and they try to stroke past the presets.
I do like the speed of those, but I want simplicity on this project, and would like to avoid having to mount a control box in the car and run more wiring through the firewall.
Well first off let me say welcome to CCC 67.5xr7. I looked for that video yesterday to post to this thread. I could not find it. I saw it a while back and I really liked the speed of the openers. Good video, very cool Cougar from what I can see of it. Is it your car?
Steven
Hey Steven, Thanks for the welcome. No, that is not my ride in the video,…but he has a very nice “glassy” looking grill, wonder what his paint mix was for the blackout portion? I’ve been considering the electronic actuator setup for my '69, as its light doors work on a common single rod and it would not require any “hacking”, just a simple mount and a couple of wires, then kiss my vacuum woes goodbye.