I have an electric car antenna that I am going to attempt to use as a linear actuator to lift my gauge pods up with.



Essentially, I'll be mounting the antenna in the dash and I would like to set up a switch that when I press it up, the ant. goes up and stops when I release the switch. Now, on the other side of the switch, it will bring the ant. down when I push it.

Here's where it gets tricky...

The antenna has three wires:

red: switched or 12v constant
black: ground
green: for the remote turn on from the radio


Buuut, all is fine and good when you have the red to + and the black to -. When the green is given power, it extends the antenna BUT when the green is shut off, the antenna goes back down.

Is there a way to wire a relay that will make it so the switch I wire in will work like an "up and down" switch?

i.e. the "up" switch will give power to the green but once released, it will cut off power to both the green and red

and

the "down" switch will be wired so when it is pressed, JUST the red wire will be given power so it will retract the antenna?

I suck at wiring and this shit makes my head hurt.

This entry was posted by JKREW, on Wednesday, March 7, 2007. You can leave your response.