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Feb 04, 2017 - 12:09 PM
Hi. My curtain motors only had 2 wires Pos and neg, to the motor itself. This flash shutter unit reverses the polarity to run the motor in opposite directions to open or close the curtains, so not sure this would work in your setup, unless you can work out which wire is positive and which is negative to the motor. You could ask Qubino, their support staff are very helpful. Sorry I cannot be of more help.
Feb 04, 2017 - 12:10 PM
I believe it is the only one available for 12v. I ran 12v actuators off mine and it did the job very well once I had worked out how to wire it all up.
Feb 04, 2017 - 06:05 PM
It sounds like your curtains have some kind of integrated motor controller. I'm guessing Autoglide, or similar? To use the Qubino Shutter DC interface the motor will need to be wired directly to it, and the existing control electronics removed from the motor unit. In this case the 12VDC PSU will go to the Qubino (not the motor unit) and it will it turn output a 2-wire connection to the motor terminals (via any limit switches that may exist). In this way the Qubino can stop/start and reverse the motor supply as it is designed to do.
If you want to keep the existing motor control electronics, you will need a different interface. One that has suitable contact closure outputs and logic to pulse the start and stop lines. It might be practical to program an Arduino or similar to convert the Qubino Shutter DC outputs to such contact closures.
If stopping the curtains in intermediate positions is not a requirement, i.e. a brief connection to the Green or Red from the Black wire achieves full open and full closed, the interface logic becomes simpler and perhaps an alternative Z-Wave module with two DC relays might suffice?
If you want to keep the existing motor control electronics, you will need a different interface. One that has suitable contact closure outputs and logic to pulse the start and stop lines. It might be practical to program an Arduino or similar to convert the Qubino Shutter DC outputs to such contact closures.
If stopping the curtains in intermediate positions is not a requirement, i.e. a brief connection to the Green or Red from the Black wire achieves full open and full closed, the interface logic becomes simpler and perhaps an alternative Z-Wave module with two DC relays might suffice?
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