Starcraft remote spot

[bones774]

Hi, I just picked up a beautiful vintage chrome remote control starcraft spot/flood with no remote switch. Got some wiring questions. I figured out the 3 wires for spot/flood light and paired off the remaining 4 wires for tilt and turn.Both filaments working and both motor drives work, the rubber bellows is shot and I was figuring on some sorta bicycle inner tube repair. Does anybody know what kinda switch i could p/u at local electronics store? Was this a rotary control originally? could i use joystick control? anybody have a wiring diagram. I figure for light i would use a 3 way toggle with off in the center. Any thoughts i would be glad to hear. Thnaks

 

[Bondo]

Re: Starcraft remote spot

Hi, I just picked up a beautiful vintage chrome remote control starcraft spot/flood with no remote switch. Got some wiring questions. I figured out the 3 wires for spot/flood light and paired off the remaining 4 wires for tilt and turn.Both filaments working and both motor drives work, the rubber bellows is shot and I was figuring on some sorta bicycle inner tube repair. Does anybody know what kinda switch i could p/u at local electronics store? Was this a rotary control originally? could i use joystick control? anybody have a wiring diagram. I figure for light i would use a 3 way toggle with off in the center. Any thoughts i would be glad to hear. Thnaks

Ayuh,.... For the light, you'll need a single pole, double throw switch,...
On- Off- On,....

For the motors that move it, ya need 2 double pole, double throw switches,...
These will reverse the polarities to reverse the motors,...

 

[bones774]

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simple,easy and sweet, thanks

 

[bones774]

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Hey I was just thinking how do i wire the the 2 wires that control each movement( i reversed them by hand to test), tilt/turn, to the 3 pins on each side of dpdt?

 

[Splat]

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One pair of the motor wires will go to the center two terminals on the switch. You will then need to bring a positive and negative power write from your fuse block to either the top or bottom sets of terminals on the switch.

Then run a jumper from the positive battery terminal to the terminal diagonal across the switch. Do the same with the negative to the last remaining terminal. And your done. Repeat the same for the other switch.

I'll get a diagram up later, but it's pretty easy.

 

[Splat]

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OK I lied. I'll post it now. Was better than sitting here doing paperwork anyways.

 

[bones774]

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Oh yeah, the diagram helped, was scratching my head before that. It's quite a bit of wiring for 4 leads coming from the motor drives! I already have unused accessory breaker circuits on my dash panel will they have both pos and neg terminals? Thanks

 

[Bondo]

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Oh yeah, the diagram helped, was scratching my head before that. It's quite a bit of wiring for 4 leads coming from the motor drives! I already have unused accessory breaker circuits on my dash panel will they have both pos and neg terminals? Thanks

Nope, the panel only carries the (+) positive side,...

All yer Grounds should run to a (-) buss bar,.....

 

[Splat]

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Oh yeah, the diagram helped, was scratching my head before that. It's quite a bit of wiring for 4 leads coming from the motor drives! I already have unused accessory breaker circuits on my dash panel will they have both pos and neg terminals? Thanks

Made me chuckle a bit. It reminds me how daunting and sometimes "magical" electrical circuits can be for people that don't play with them everyday. I'm certainly not picking on you, but some of us look at that stuff at it just comes so easy, again we play with that stuff all day.

I could show you circuits that would make you pull your hair out. Hell they make me pull my hair out sometimes.

I'm one of those guys that is a jack of all trades. I'm always getting phone calls from friends for things ranging from plumbing to electrical, to fabrication , to automotive, and they're lost. I like to dive into stuff, confident in my skills to be able to make it work. They think so much is magic, so many "how'd you do that's?!" after the project is complete. I just remind them, it's not so scary, cause I've seen it before, experience is a heck of a confidence booster.

This is a great place to learn and ask questions. It's also a great place to contribute.

I'd like to See some pic's of that spotlight once you get it going. They have always sorta fascinated me.

Bill

 

[bones774]

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Made me chuckle a bit. It reminds me how daunting and sometimes "magical" electrical circuits can be for people that don't play with them everyday. I'm certainly not picking on you, but some of us look at that stuff at it just comes so easy, again we play with that stuff all day.

I could show you circuits that would make you pull your hair out. Hell they make me pull my hair out sometimes.

I'm one of those guys that is a jack of all trades. I'm always getting phone calls from friends for things ranging from plumbing to electrical, to fabrication , to automotive, and they're lost. I like to dive into stuff, confident in my skills to be able to make it work. They think so much is magic, so many "how'd you do that's?!" after the project is complete. I just remind them, it's not so scary, cause I've seen it before, experience is a heck of a confidence booster.

This is a great place to learn and ask questions. It's also a great place to contribute.

I'd like to See some pic's of that spotlight once you get it going. They have always sorta fascinated me.

Bill

I'm pretty good when i see a schematic in front of me, just a matter of following the lines.

BTW-If i wanted to get a rotary type switch for pan/tilt, could you describe what i could search for online? and the wiring diagram?Glad to post pics in spring,the boat is covered for now
Thnaks a bun

 

[Splat]

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Hmmm I'll have to look for that. I'm sure a joystick switch can be found, not sure what's available as far as rotary. They aren't cheap regardless.

I'll take a look in my catalogs overt the next few days and see if I can find something.

A Meyers snow plow switch comes to mind first, but they aren't momentary in the down position.

4 push buttons would be cheaper, and easy to install. Let me take a look at mcm, and Grainger and see what I can find.

Bill

 

[bones774]

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the joysticks i've seen online are about 70 bucks or more, the switches are alot cheaper. Don't go to so much trouble, i'll probably go with the switches. thanks
4 pushbuttons? i thought it was 2 and an on/off/on switch?

 

[Splat]

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the joysticks i've seen online are about 70 bucks or more, the switches are alot cheaper. Don't go to so much trouble, i'll probably go with the switches. thanks
4 pushbuttons? i thought it was 2 and an on/off/on switch?

I was thinking of 4 push buttons mounted in a diamond pattern, one for up, down, left, right etc. Would be more intuitive than 2 switches next to each other and remembering whick one controls which axis. It's no big deal to take a look in the catalog. Day before thanksgiving, not going to be much to do at work anyways, unless they break the blast furnace again......

It's been a long week. lol

 

[bones774]

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I was thinking of 4 push buttons mounted in a diamond pattern, one for up, down, left, right etc. Would be more intuitive than 2 switches next to each other and remembering whick one controls which axis. It's no big deal to take a look in the catalog. Day before thanksgiving, not going to be much to do at work anyways, unless they break the blast furnace again......

It's been a long week. lol

Then you are gonna have to draw me another wiring diagram!