At 05:39 06/06/01 -0400, Alan Richer/CAM/Lotus, wrote
>Gee - thanks a lot, Rick.....8*)
>
>Seriously, though, you did put grease in the gearcase, right?
>
>Hmmm....Y'know, if you were at all electronically inclined (and it doesn't
>take all that much to do) I'd think about a PWM speed control for it.
Well I hope like hell that this doesn't kick off another "grease in
swivels" message swirl but yes I put grease in there. I used a fancy and
expensive bicycle bearing grease that was kicking around in the tool
box. I rebuilt the wipers as per your article about three years ago. At
that point only one wiper would move at all and only at a creeping
reluctant pace. Since then, Warp 2.
Now, for the matter at hand. After reading all of the responses I've
decided to first of all wire both motors into a single dash switch. This
will at least lower the distraction level problem.
And I really like that Homebrew PWM article. While I am not that good with
a soldering iron it does look like a good rainy day project (forgive the
pun). I probably won't get around to playing with that project for a while
but the switch I can do today, and I should because there can't be more
than a couple of days rain left here before the drought resumes.
As for the discussion regarding sensing the park position -- it reads like
the proceedings of a Mathematics of a Black Hole Singularity Conference to me.
I like Rain-X a lot but I like messing around with mechanical puzzles even
more.
Rick Grant
1959 Series II "88"
VORIZO
Rick Grant Communications
Media and Crisis Management
Calgary Ottawa
www.rickgrant.com
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