various ways to remotely control Vacs and DC's.

[BrianHood]

I was thinking about ways to remote switch DC's and Vacs. I know this has been kicked around before but I was looking for a very low cost yet crisp execution.
Build #1, at the milling machine I have a vac in a cabinet next to the mill with the hose run out of it, the nozzle is often attached near the cutter with magnets and sucks the chips up as they are made, also quite useful for clean up. Being in the cabinet it is very quiet, but the on-off switch ends up in the cabinet so I've just been plugging and unplugging it-super lame.

Solution took .5 hour to build:
A TORK TRP-D self ballasted relay ($25 for 4 of them on Ebay) was threaded into an outdoor style box (had it laying around), phone wire was run to the LED illuminated switch ($7 from Zoro tools). Cord from box to wall, outlet installed in box, done.  TORK relay is rated 1HP 120v to 277v.  The LV wire can be run to blast gates and gates used as a switch. Relay supplies 24V if needed, in this case powers the red led when on.



Other ideas:
A 2HP version for my DC (+$35).
A version that senses 'wind' from the TS blade, such that the DC runs when the blade is spinning (+$12).
A wireless version (+$50 for the receiver and $25 for each remote switch).

Still trying to figure out a way to combine wireless and wind sensor.

I'm open to ideas and feedback on the concepts,

keep it clean,

Brian

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http://www.jpthien.com/smf/index.php?topic=1179.0

[BrianHood]

R2
Thank you for the link, I had skimmed it, as I have so many of your posts (Your posts and the replys are an amazing source of ideas and inspirations) but was motivated to go back through them more carefully. There I saw the Hawkeye 800 CSR which I did not know about and just ordered ($6.75, eBay). I had considered and rejected CSR's but now I'll give it a try.