Balloon Ride Repairs

Phil~

After seeing this accessary recently, I was determined to find one. While I searched I gave some thought into building one from scratch. I eventually realized the switching part would essentially be a "back and forth" unit.

I managed to find balloon ride recently and never had to build it, but this is what i had so far.

I believe the Dallee (item #561-4) Automatic Back-N-Forth unit could be used without switches and adjust the timing to reverse polarity. http://www.dallee.com/Basic_Package.htm

To use your switches, I think you could use (Item #609)

http://www.dallee.com/PDFs/609-BNF_CMBO-v3.pdf

Your balloon sensing switches would be the "gap" in the diagram.

I hope that someone with more knowledge could verify that this will/would work as I think it would.

As a side note, After setting up and running a NOS balloon ride accessory for about 2 hours. One of my cherry switches stopped working and I needed to take the accessary apart and spray CRC cleaner into the switch to get it to work again.

Good luck

Bill

Thanks Bill:  I talked to Dallee and some of their products would fix my balloon.  In the mean time I plan to use an Atlas Snap Relay which I have and am familiar with to see if I can use it to reverse polarity.  Phil