My First Ghost Trap
Posted: August 10th, 2011, 9:01 pm
https://www.gbfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26753
stantz wrote:I really love your take on the pedal, sheer awesomeness!! Just out of interest, which servos are you using and where did you get them? I've built many traps myself but none with actual opening doors so if you could pass on a little info it would be much appreciated!For the servos I'm using the Hitec HS-77BB, both rotating at 180 degrees one clockwise the other counterclockwise. Got them from here:
The Stiff wrote:The lights and servos are most impressive!Well the pedal I just kind of made it up as I went along, while trying to stay somewhat in line with the real thing. I basically came to the decision to add the two switches because of how I had the main trap light wired and how the servo controller board was wired. So coming out the back of the trap I had six wires paired together; trap light +/-, servo power +/-, and door control +/-, those wires were then braided all together an then sleeved in the black vinyl tubing. The door control I had no problem with, just hid that in the pedal spring. The servo power and trap light I had to figure out what to do with, an make it somewhat believable. I was just going to put the switches in an leave it like that but I felt that it wasn't very believable, "I thought how on earth would the operator of this know what's on and what's off", so I added the LEDs. Then I figured I needed labels on them too, "how would you know what the switches do?" So I as I was cutting the actual trap labels out, I looked over at the proton pack labels an saw the Activate and Intensify labels an thought those would work perfectly.
Was putting the Intensify and Activate labels a way of suggesting a proton gun / trap hybrid, or just as a way of saying "the Ghostbusters likely used spare parts from their other equipment to assemble traps" ?
Sorry for the long confusing question.