Hi there,
I got tired of unplugging the hose and power cable from my CT22 to switch from the MFT, Kapex and CS70.
So I started to think of building something that could easily do the job.
After a few hours with sketchup I came up with the following design:
A hose has to be plugged between the orange part and the CT.
The orange part is moving left or right and can stop at three positions, i.e. it is a three-way switcher.
During its movement the orange part triggers two inverters that are cabled to switch three power cables.
The output hose is used as a lever to switch from one position to another.
I am currently building a prototype and expect to get it working soon.
I used the router and a circle jig to make the main holes, that needs to be quite accurate for the hose to gently plug into the device and not falling down.
The moving part is simply fit into the main box with a little play.
The input and output holes are aligned with the help of a simple indexing system: two springs are integrated in the moving part:
A small ball is pressed against the spring and falls into small recesses that have been drilled so that the moving part stops at the good positions:
Feel free to comment or criticise [wink]
Thomas
I got tired of unplugging the hose and power cable from my CT22 to switch from the MFT, Kapex and CS70.
So I started to think of building something that could easily do the job.
After a few hours with sketchup I came up with the following design:
A hose has to be plugged between the orange part and the CT.
The orange part is moving left or right and can stop at three positions, i.e. it is a three-way switcher.
During its movement the orange part triggers two inverters that are cabled to switch three power cables.
The output hose is used as a lever to switch from one position to another.
I am currently building a prototype and expect to get it working soon.
I used the router and a circle jig to make the main holes, that needs to be quite accurate for the hose to gently plug into the device and not falling down.
The moving part is simply fit into the main box with a little play.
The input and output holes are aligned with the help of a simple indexing system: two springs are integrated in the moving part:
A small ball is pressed against the spring and falls into small recesses that have been drilled so that the moving part stops at the good positions:
Feel free to comment or criticise [wink]
Thomas
