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h3rk · 12-13-2007, 04:38 PM

There is a vacuum manifold that can easily be used to individually send vacuum to 5 different vacuum actuators. It's a delco part, I've got it shown on my Automatic Climate Control thread in the fusion brain forum. each solenoid is powered by +12v with a common out.
There are servos that will do the job for the heat door, take a look at the box, where the heat door swivels and see if there's room for a servo. The servo's should have potentiometer position feedback, or be stepper motors that can be tracked by pulse counting. You just have to be sure you have room for one.

There's a lot you would be bypassing by controlling the actuators directly and reading the inputs directly. This is most true with automatic HVAC control in mind.

I'm not a Mac guy, so I'm not much help, I know. But I am developing software for PC to do that (slowly, as I'm a beginner), and using the Fusion Brain's very diverse and robust skinning language to allow the same through their software (which will likely be done much sooner).

There is a lot of the mech engineering/process control to be included. I'd say I'm about 60% on it.

Temperature blend door and fan control are much harder than mode control, imho.

12-13-2007, 04:38 PM	#9
h3rk FLAC Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 1,286	There is a vacuum manifold that can easily be used to individually send vacuum to 5 different vacuum actuators. It's a delco part, I've got it shown on my Automatic Climate Control thread in the fusion brain forum. each solenoid is powered by +12v with a common out. There are servos that will do the job for the heat door, take a look at the box, where the heat door swivels and see if there's room for a servo. The servo's should have potentiometer position feedback, or be stepper motors that can be tracked by pulse counting. You just have to be sure you have room for one. There's a lot you would be bypassing by controlling the actuators directly and reading the inputs directly. This is most true with automatic HVAC control in mind. I'm not a Mac guy, so I'm not much help, I know. But I am developing software for PC to do that (slowly, as I'm a beginner), and using the Fusion Brain's very diverse and robust skinning language to allow the same through their software (which will likely be done much sooner). There is a lot of the mech engineering/process control to be included. I'd say I'm about 60% on it. Temperature blend door and fan control are much harder than mode control, imho.