Blinds with electric drive do it yourself

Each owner of the blinds periodically thinks about saving himself from daily manipulations with a cord or a rod and replace blind-driven blinds on a motorized version. Someone in a hurry to the store and, despite the multi-valued price tag, acquires the desired design. Most, having seen the high cost of a metal roller, treated themselves to the thought that light physical exertion is useful for the body, and stubbornly continue to twist the day and pull the controls manually.

But there are also such craftsmen who are able to provide themselves with comfort and comfort with minimal costs, as they have already invented how to make blinds with electric drive with their own hands. Interesting engineering solutions share with you in this article.

Materials for the manufacture of electric shutters

For modernization, the most common blinds are suitable, in which the petals rotate with the help of a plastic rod. The task is solved in two planes: mechanics and logic, that is, how the mechanism will work, and what principle the system will be managed.

To do this, you will need:

• Motors with gearbox;
• Arduino module;
• plastic housings;
• wires;
• Cable Channel.

Major Motor Requirements: Their capacity should be enough to drive the elements of blinds, but the motor should rotate slowly. Clean the speed you need and purchase such a gearbox, the effort of which corresponds to your calculations by the number of revolutions.

We make blinds with an electric drive. Main technical moments

ARDUINO module is recommended as a managing basis. With the help of a model range of this microcomputer, you can manage not only the blinds, but also heaters, gates, other devices. The relay unit will allow you to turn on the load even in 220 V. A special program for the Arduino platform is written on the computer, which will adjust the operation of the contacts in the mode you need. In particular, this is relevant, if you have 2, 3 and more blinds on the window. Pressing the buttons in a certain order, you can open all the curtains at the same time, alternately, completely or 25 - 50%, as well as set any speed of opening and closing.

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Arduino also allows you to program additional features. As an option - the security mode in which the special buzzer will notify you about improper operation of the module, for example, when the operator tries to close the closed blinds.

Take care that the installation of electrical equipment is reversible.

Leave yourself the possibility of manual control of blinds shutters:

• First, it will allow you to synchronize the work of each design element, if the balance is broken;
• Secondly, you will be able to fully use the blinds during the repair of the motor, if it fails.

The mechanical part, as a rule, is located on the window itself, which means there is a chance that sooner or later due to the impact of moisture and dust falling into the room from the street when opening the window, the motors can fail. Plastic boxes that you pack driving elements should not glue. It will be more rational to bore them with brackets so that you can easily open them at the earnest.

Thanks to modern technical capabilities that are becoming more and more affordable for a wide range of home inventors, you can implement any rationalization idea and an example of this shutter with electric drive with your own hands.