From a previous post I indicated I'd manage to find an electrically operated heater tap as part of my hunt to run electric controls for my heater.
Thought I'd throw up pictures, partly at Mando's request, but for general information for anyone else contemplating electric controls.
The kit shown is a product from Vintage Air and each kit cost me about $135 from CoolDrive as one of the local distributers. I bought two kits, one for the tap the other simply to use the servo to drive the airflow direction operation on the heater system.
The following picture shows the general kit and wiring and the various bits of the second kit on the left.
The tap is a variant of the simple lever actuation taps available here. I've now one spare lever tap if anyone wants it. The VA tap of course mounts atop a servo motor to drive it via switching instead of using a choke cable pull as I was going to do.
The seperated servo and tap are shown next and I will just use the servo to drive the air direction control.
I was driven to looking for such gear after seeing the VA anodised 4 switch set used in their climate control systems. I plan to make up backing plates etched with the various controls to use behind the rotary switches.
Jaycar sell the black anodised knob seen on the dismantled switch (for $3 each) which allows me to pretty up the look of the switches and create a common look on the dash.
It is all plug and play if you just want to mount the gear as supplied, with plugs into the switch and servo, an ECU to control the servo motor and fusing at the connection teminals.
Hope this helps someone down the track if they are looking for the same sort of system.
Cheers
Steve
Electric heater tap and servo controls
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