Re: Switches Anyone?

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On 4/11/2013 5:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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>>>>> We want to set up some switches that provide inputs to an NVR that
>>>>> will trigger presets on a PTZ camera.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have 16 inputs available but will likely only need 5 or so.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do any of you know of a ready made console with momentary switches so
>>>>> we won't have to spend a bunch of time crafting something?  We would
>>>>> rather avoid project boxes from rat shack and I don't have the skills
>>>>> to work sheet metal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideally, the switches would be spaced out enough to label each one
>>>>> with the view of that preset.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to google for switch console but it was mostly network
>>>>> equipment...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?  If it has inputs can't you just use the dry
>>>> contacts from your triggers to trigger your PTZ?  I know Spectra Domes
>>>> are internally programmable to take specific inputs and go to specific
>>>> presets.  Are you moving the PTZ from the NVR?  If so I still don't
>>>> see why you cant trigger the inputs on the NVR from the dry contacts
>>>> on your signal source.  Is it a voltage trigger +5 : >+1 like using
>>>> one of the pins on an LPT port?  Then just route a regulated 5VDC
>>>> power source through your dry contacts.  (don't forget to tie your
>>>> grounds together) All your stuff NC?  Then get a small bank of relays.
>>>>
>>>> Or... are you trying to build an external mechanical preset selector?
>>>> In that case buy a project box and fit it with a bunch of arcade
>>>> buttons. Arcade buttons are fairly cheap, and the micro switches on
>>>> them will take a beating, and they are form C.  Check fleabay for
>>>> those if you don't find another source.
>>>>
>>>> Like I said, "What am I missing?"  Its all pretty basic electrical
>>>> circuits.
>>>
>>> I guess reading comprehension is an issue for me today.  The last is
>>> what you want to do.  If worse comes to worse I can build you one.  If
>>> got a bunch of X-Arcade buttons laying around the shop left over from my
>>> last CNC console build.
>>
>> Found a couple places on the web that sell attractive plastic or metal
>> project boxes.  Still don't know what the boss wants to do, but with a
>> decent box, putting in switches, doing the wiring and setting up for
>> connections won't be hard at all and I've let him know it won't take too
>> much time.
>>
>> A sharp drill bit, a hot soldering iron and zippity zoppity ya got the
>> console...
>>
>> He's still hoping for an off the shelf solution.  I don't think it's out
>> there.
>
> Custom solutions are so fast and easy these days that its hardly worth
> trying to shoehorn an off the shelf solution.  Black plastic wallpaper,
> plastic edge trim, and some MDF and you can have a custom solution that
> looks like it was mass produced in a factory with actual quality control.
> The same effort with a brushed aluminum project box, and you get a really
> cool industrial looking custom solution.  I cheat.  I do stuff like that
> on one of the CNC machines.  I got into it as a hobby, but now I make so
> much stuff on them I don't know how I ever got along without them.  Its
> pretty cool when you make a custom face plate for something and your
> company name becomes a permanent part of the building.


Just out of curiosity I checked Fleabay for an off the shelf solution. There
is just so much cool crap there... anyway.  I didn't find any preassembled
consoles, but there were some cool panels of buttons you could mount in a
console.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIGHTED-PUSH-BUTTON-SET-Knight-Rider-Upper-Console-/370762422866?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5653299a52


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Knight-Rider-KITT-TURBO-BOOST-Button-Individual-/130884141165?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e794d806d#ht_940wt_810