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bigdoghustler
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- Idiot lamp maker seeks smart people for advice.
Excuse my lack of knowledge and please correct me on anything! I'm making a lamp right now and the vision is to have a dimmable lamp in which there are two strings controlling to the potentiometer. To increase the brightness, one string is pulled down and the other will go up. I have a lamp with a rotary dimmer on it right now and I figure the best way to do this is to attach the string to the knob.
The problems I'm attempting to solve are: 1: the range of motion on the knob translates to about 1 inch on the string. Ideally I'd like to pull the string about 5 inches or so to cover the whole range of the dimmer.
and 2: the knob takes a bit of force to turn, and I would like to make it a little bit easier so I don't knock over my lamp when im adjusting the brightness.
Looking for input as to solutions for these problems as well as if anybody has a a completely different idea as to how I should approach this.
Thanks!
~lamp guy
The problems I'm attempting to solve are: 1: the range of motion on the knob translates to about 1 inch on the string. Ideally I'd like to pull the string about 5 inches or so to cover the whole range of the dimmer.
and 2: the knob takes a bit of force to turn, and I would like to make it a little bit easier so I don't knock over my lamp when im adjusting the brightness.
Looking for input as to solutions for these problems as well as if anybody has a a completely different idea as to how I should approach this.
Thanks!
~lamp guy