Hello,
So I've been asked to fix a machine in one of our engineering buildings. It is a big old rube goldberg machine essentially, and it has two motors that power a little carrier system to bring the balls from the bottom to the top. There is a sensor attached that is pointed at the door, and the idea is that when someone passes by, the motor runs for just a few seconds, meaning it will take a lot of motion to actually get the balls going through. So where I come in is my dean handed me what USED to be attached to the machine, and all I have to work with is visual inspection of the thing and the parts that were given to me (and whatever tools/wires I have access to as well).
Tl;dr, here is my wiring question: I have two motors that I would like to pulse on (with a hot and neutral wire), an H3YN-2 timer (http://www.omronkft.hu/pdf_en/h3yn.pdf), a motion sensor with two wire in and two wire out (this thing isn't grounded ^_^), and a 120V plug also with a hot and neutral. I'm having a hard time hooking up the timer though. I see that I'm probably trying to operate it in pulse mode, so that the random external input (motion sensor) decides when it runs. So from that diagram, I think that I would wire the power over 9- and 14+ as well as INTO the motion sensor, run a wire from 5 to 13, plug the output of the motion sensor into 9+ and 13-, and my output will be 12+ and 8-?
I tried the above setup and the operating lights for the timer didn't even go on. I tried the timer out on a much more basic circuit and it did function, so I know it should work, but this setup didn't. Any thoughts? Am I doing this correctly?
So I've been asked to fix a machine in one of our engineering buildings. It is a big old rube goldberg machine essentially, and it has two motors that power a little carrier system to bring the balls from the bottom to the top. There is a sensor attached that is pointed at the door, and the idea is that when someone passes by, the motor runs for just a few seconds, meaning it will take a lot of motion to actually get the balls going through. So where I come in is my dean handed me what USED to be attached to the machine, and all I have to work with is visual inspection of the thing and the parts that were given to me (and whatever tools/wires I have access to as well).
Tl;dr, here is my wiring question: I have two motors that I would like to pulse on (with a hot and neutral wire), an H3YN-2 timer (http://www.omronkft.hu/pdf_en/h3yn.pdf), a motion sensor with two wire in and two wire out (this thing isn't grounded ^_^), and a 120V plug also with a hot and neutral. I'm having a hard time hooking up the timer though. I see that I'm probably trying to operate it in pulse mode, so that the random external input (motion sensor) decides when it runs. So from that diagram, I think that I would wire the power over 9- and 14+ as well as INTO the motion sensor, run a wire from 5 to 13, plug the output of the motion sensor into 9+ and 13-, and my output will be 12+ and 8-?
I tried the above setup and the operating lights for the timer didn't even go on. I tried the timer out on a much more basic circuit and it did function, so I know it should work, but this setup didn't. Any thoughts? Am I doing this correctly?
