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Re: Electric Curtain Tracks
Graham,
>I'm in the process of running miles of cable in my house and have a few
>questions on Electric Curtain tracks:
>
>1. Are they all mains voltage
All the ones I am aware of are... - Autoglide, Butler, Swish...
>2. Where are the motors normally positioned, top or bottom of window
Varies, - the "old" Autoglide stuff, - when it was still owned by
Swish, had
a motor and a seperate control unit. - the mains cable goes to the control
unit, which is normally located at a conveniently reachable height, the
motor is mounted on the curtain track itself, with a thinner cable going
between them (don't know if that's mains or LV though...) - From what I can
see of looking at the "new" Autoglide stuff now it's under the
Silent Gliss
brand, it would not appear to have changed...
various others that just hook onto an existing track's pull-cords (such as
the Butler, and Swish motors), I would imagne its prety much up to you...
>3. What techniques have been used to integrate to say HomeVision, ie.
>IR, hard wired etc.
>
>
there are mods for adapting the Autoglide control units for operation by HA
controllers, IIRC the "K400" model is the best one to get for
this....
The other ones that I've seen just reverse direction every time they are
powered, so the normal technique is to just put them on an Appliance
module,
- send an OFF-ON once to open, send the same again to close...
HTH
Paul G.
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