So, I got my son's ghost trap modded with a BNC connector & a toggle switch. I also added extra battery power & got the trap successfully opening & closing.Switch the connectors for the open/close limit switches.
Everything was working fine, so I started to reassemble the trap only to find that after putting everything back together I was back to square one!
I've got sounds & lights but the trap still won't open, just a click from the motor and nothing.
Failure is not an option though & so I'm going to try & mod the trap using a single board microcontroller to control the motor.
Looking at the original board the larger IC controls the LEDs & sound, as well as possibly sending control signals to the smaller IC, which I assume is a motor driver.
I'm pretty sure it's the smaller IC that is faulty, as the LEDs & sound are working but the trap won't open.
I'm hoping then to use a microcontroller (i.e. an Arduino) with a motor driver to enable the microcontroller to reverse the motor which opens the trap.
In the first instance I'm going to try & keep the board which controls the LEDs & sounds to make the project slightly easier but if I can overcome the problem of controlling the motor I hope everything after that will be easy!
Statistics: Posted by The_Y33TER — July 12th, 2024, 9:33 pm