Electric headlight conversion
Melting Slicks
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,548
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From: Woodinville WA
Dave, somewhere else is a set of drawings from the first electric conversion I have heard of, from Chris McDonald, McSpeed.....
he used the Firebird light motors....and controller panel....
IMO, the easy way is to use a linear motor like on my wiper door, ebay about 30 bux each....use radio shack magnetic burglar alarm window switches like I used on the wiper door, that stops the action at the end of stroke, same wiring diagram I built with 3 relays to control the whole mess, each light independent of each other.....now IF you wanted a control rod running laterally under there, you could easy activate both at once, and so just one set of relays and ONE actuator....whole thing maybe 200 bux at MOST....bet I get it done less than 100......
and as always, vacuum sux.....
he used the Firebird light motors....and controller panel....
IMO, the easy way is to use a linear motor like on my wiper door, ebay about 30 bux each....use radio shack magnetic burglar alarm window switches like I used on the wiper door, that stops the action at the end of stroke, same wiring diagram I built with 3 relays to control the whole mess, each light independent of each other.....now IF you wanted a control rod running laterally under there, you could easy activate both at once, and so just one set of relays and ONE actuator....whole thing maybe 200 bux at MOST....bet I get it done less than 100......
and as always, vacuum sux.....
