Projects

There are many applications for our linear actuators across many different industries. As the unit is designed to move an object in a linear motion, it has been used for lowering light bars on utility trucks.  Lightbars are used on vehicles to increase their visibility or to provide visual warning lights for the awareness of other drivers around them. The light bars can sometimes be elevated higher to further increase the visibility, making it...

You're not going to want to miss out on this latest home automation project using two, 12 volt actuators. Dr. Decks has been at it again. This time, he uses two of our PA-14 actuators to lift a lounge chair from a deck at the push of a button. We love this because there are many homes out there that have limited space, and nearly his entire Phantom line of products speaks to this problem. He's not just making a lounge chair, but some of his ot...

Here is the latest installment in our round of Dr. Decks' automation projects. The talented builder has been featured in a number of notable news sources and is the recipient of award after award for his innovative projects. We had the opportunity to not only ask Dr. Decks a few questions about his earlier Phantom Bench project, but we also have a video of his brand new Phantom Staircase project to present. PA: What inspired you to create this...

One of our talented customers from Free Fall Technologies was nice enough to share his custom project with us, built with the help of our products. Free Fall Technologies is a planetarium education company that specializes in making interesting and educational technical systems for the field.  The project is a custom planetarium projector lift that utilizes our FLT-03-2-1 Lifting Column set to raise itself up and down. This is the fourth proje...