I tried to use a winch with steel cable.
Motorising my roll off roof.
Hi i m working on motorising my roll off observatory roof and ultimately i would like to control it from ekos.
My first attempt june 11 at doing this didn t go well.
Of course that was before i finished all of the boxing and trim but even after that it was manageable.
While this is a normal aspect of roofing and.
I understand this would fall under dome control.
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There are times when it rains especially during big storms that water cascades off of a roof like a waterfall.
The best possible place for the observatory was quite close to the house as you can see.
How to redirect rain off a roof.
Over the past year and a half the 4x6 rails that support the roof have twisted and warped a bit.
After years struggling with a poorly designed 9ft dome observatory whose only access was via the slit i bit the bullet and designed a new roll off roof observatory.
This past saturday i worked on automating the roll off roof.
That s made it harder to operate.
When i first built my observatory it was a breeze to roll off the roof.
The steel cable would walk to one side of the drum and.
A steel cable runs up the other side of the roof and a pulley is attached to the top.
The roof is hinged near the house.
The cable was wrapped a couple of times around the drum and the ends were attached spring loaded at either end of the roof.
The sloping roof of the house provided the obvious solution.