Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Timing Relay Controled Circuit

Status
Not open for further replies.

tram918475

Electrical
Joined
Dec 8, 2012
Messages
2
Location
CA
I need help to design a motor control schematic diagram where a start and stop button contorls the following. When the start button in engauged the motor will operate in the foward direction for 3 seconds, stop for 3 seconds, reverse direction for 3 seconds, stop for 3 seconds and repeat this cycle until the stop button is pressed. This problem has been troubling me as I cannot seem to restart the cycle and chase my own tail as I design it.
 
I worked for a company that built all these timer modules. Of course, I dragged home all the defective returns for projects. With all this free stuff gathering dust the first thing I turn to when I have a project like this is an Arduino UNO. At less than $10 for some knockoffs it is the easy way to do projects like this.
 
It has to be a simple schematic representation no electronics only push buttons control relays off-delay timers or on-delay timers
 
If you want brief reciprocating motion like that you don't need to do it in the motor. It might be more effective to use a solenoid, or a gear train to do this. Constantly starting and restarting the motor will shorten its life.
How many revolutions are you trying to accomplish at each phase?

No electronics? What other phobias do you have?


STF
 
Is this for school?

TTFN
faq731-376
7ofakss
 
I suspect the reason for using discrete relays is that 'no electronics' is one of the constraints of the homework question. [wink]
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top