Hi Everyone, I know its been a while since my last post. But I have been trying to work things out. I talked to Susan about her lift bridge to try and get some ideas, now I am ask you all. I got the up motion figured out some what. But I have a small problem with the down speed. All the electrical is from a kids car like this.
I used the switches for forward and reverse for up and down, the power switch as is, and the gas pedal to put power to everything. Here is a shot video of it in the works. Any ideas would be great about slowing it down on the down word stroke. I tried gas shocks like Susan, Screen door closers, reducing the power, but then the motor doesn't want to move.
I used the rear axel and drive motor from the car to run the cable as the drill did not have enough braking power to hold the bridge once it started down. I can take a picture of that if anyone is interested.
