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I have the Tortise 800-8100 1nd 8101 actuators and confused by directions (surprise .)

 

My NJI gates have a total actuator travel of approximately 0.125 inches.  Acording to the table in the Totrtise instruction sheet step 3, I need to use Drive mechanism pivot hole number 3 and bellcrank hole number 1 (0.110-0.129) or 2 (0.130-0.150) depending on how much play is in gate arm actuators.

 

However at step 16, Assembling the Drive Mechanism, states there are 5 "coarse" total slide travel lengths from 0.125 to 0.675 and then says refer to the step 3 chart third column to determine the recommended pivot hole for drive arm.  Except third column is bellcrank, so I assumed a typo and meant column two.  wouldn't I really want pivot hole 1 (0.125 travel) to operate the 0.125 actuator travel.

 

If I use the recommended drive mechanism pivot hole 3 (0.275" slide travel) and bell crank hole, won't the bell crank be over extending my 0.125?  Obviously there are mechanical interplays going on here to acheiving my 0.125" travel.  I am assuming that the 0.275 is "leveraged down" (for lack of better term) by bell crank to equal about 0.125".

 

But wanted to check if I am reading this chart and steps correctly as it will be a pain in *** to undo things once mounted under layout and finagling with adjustments.    

 

Electrical great , mechanical, not so much .

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