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What do I need to actuate my magnetic actuators???

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SOrry for the genericness of my post :D Had an appointment to meet but I thought someone might understand me.

Anyhow. Since a magnetic actuator has 2 connectors (on on each end of the coil), and a reciever has 3 (-, +, signal), how do I hook the two together?

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Bob Selman designs sell a chip to allow you to hook up actuators to a standard receiver ( http://users.joplin.com/~bselman/dpc.htm).

You can build your own using the circuit board from a micro sized servo, a trim pot, and some patience. I believe that RCMicroFlight had an article by Matt Keenon on building this sort of device from the guts of a servo decoder recently (but I didn't find it), but there was a John Worth article in 2000 that outlined the theory (http://www.rcmicroflight.com/may00/servo.asp).
Hope that helps...

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Thanks man. I like the idea of using a servo circuit board. I've got some HiTec HS-81 servos laying around and they have a tiny circuit board on them!

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Hmm, it seems Bob Selman's page is no longer in service...

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Just went to http://users.joplin.com/~bselman/ and it seemed to be there...

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Odd , gave me a 404 error last night.. And I tried about 5 times.

Oh well, it's working now. Thanks, Mike.