mikemwa

Thanks for the help. I will get a few parts and give it a try. I'll let you know how it goes.

The pullies are about 5-6 feet away from each other. The motor is a micro DC gear motor I just happened to have on hand. It also has an encoder which I haven't checked out yet. It is a motor from http://www.faulhaber.com/uploadpk/EN_1624_S_DFF.pdf. I think I got it from BGMicro. Any gear motor should work. This one is supposed to work on 6 to 18 volts but I've run it on as little as 1.5 volts. Takes very little current. It has a 141 to 1 gear ratio. The project I want to work on is just to open and close long living room drapes with the push of a button. I can think of many other applications this would work on. With the push of the button the drapes would open and stop when the one micro switch was pushed. Then when you push the button again the drapes would close. In the attached drawing I just mentioned switches but I was thinking of micro switches.

Any ideas out there? I didn't think it would be that difficult.

I have a string on 2 pullies with a stop attached to it. There are 2 switches or some kind of sensors in the path. There is a gear motor attached to one pulley. I want to push the button and the stop will travel to one switch then stop. When the button is pressed again I want the stop to go to the other switch and then stop and so on. How would I wire something like this up? I have attached a simple drawing of what I'm trying to do.