I am looking for help or someone that offers a service to design a contorl system. This is just a one time project to control automation system in my house.
Here is just a quick idea of what I am trying to do. I can get more detailed if someone is willing to help me out on this.
I have a Reversable AC gear motor that moves a trolley along a 6' long straight track, I need to control where the trolley goes by IR remote. It needs to stop at 7 different spots along the track that could be triggered maybe by a switch or something at each stop. It needs to remember where it is so when you tell it to go to another loaction it will know which way to travel to get their.
Right now I am controlling it by way of a Hall Effect sensor on the gear motor. This does work but their are a couple of things making it not ideal. The accuracy is not the best do to the gear motor traveling slightly when power is cut. It isn't much, maybe 1/8" but that adds up over time to being way off. Other problem is that the trolley could be moved by hand and the Hall Effect doesn't know it moved so then it is really off.
Thanks for any help. I know just enough to know how I want it to work and ideas of how to do it. But not enough to know exactly what components to use or how to program it.
Here is just a quick idea of what I am trying to do. I can get more detailed if someone is willing to help me out on this.
I have a Reversable AC gear motor that moves a trolley along a 6' long straight track, I need to control where the trolley goes by IR remote. It needs to stop at 7 different spots along the track that could be triggered maybe by a switch or something at each stop. It needs to remember where it is so when you tell it to go to another loaction it will know which way to travel to get their.
Right now I am controlling it by way of a Hall Effect sensor on the gear motor. This does work but their are a couple of things making it not ideal. The accuracy is not the best do to the gear motor traveling slightly when power is cut. It isn't much, maybe 1/8" but that adds up over time to being way off. Other problem is that the trolley could be moved by hand and the Hall Effect doesn't know it moved so then it is really off.
Thanks for any help. I know just enough to know how I want it to work and ideas of how to do it. But not enough to know exactly what components to use or how to program it.