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| I went really cheap and simple:
I interrupted the stop part of the circuit and tied them to the hot an neutral of a female extension cord end i cord grabbed outside the control box. The start I put on the ground prong of the female.
For normal operation, I plug in a dummy plug (male) with a wire connecting the hot an neutral blades of the plug so that it's as if my additions aren't there. The pushbuttons function normally.
I then made a few on/off pushbutton boxes out of the grey two button boxes. I connected the box to an extension cord male end. I put a strong magnet on the back so I can just stick the switch anywhere I want to.
When I plug this box into the female I added originally, the second pushbotton set also works for start and stop as well as the original pushbutton set I tapped into on the bin.
THEN I made a few duplex outlet boxes with a short extension cord male on them. I wired the same as the other switches (I forget exactly, I would have to take one apart to look) so that when I plug THIS box into the side of the bin, it allows me to add TWO extra remote switchboxes I have made to the setup.
All told I have two of the duplex splitter boxes and 3 extra pushbutton add on boxes with leads.
So in reality I could have 5 sets of on/off pushbuttons controlling one auger.
This allows me to control the auger wherever I need to and I ALSO added an interlock to the setup as well: a male plug in another auger further down the line has a male cord end attached to a sidekick on the mag of the further auger. This way if the far auger shuts off, it kills the bin auger automatically. When the auger is on, it completes the stop button's two legs.
With this setup, I can use my pushbuttons for any auger I add a female to the on/off circuit and I can extend it as far as I want by just adding everyday extension cords.
I use one set of switches on several bins for sweep augers, that way the guys INSIDE the bin have a set of on/off that they can control and is not in their way, yet the outside controls are available to use as well.
Redundancy for this is much safer for the guys inside, they have the ability to shut the auger off if there is a problem. | |
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Grain bin augers remote control
