Thanks, means a lot to hear a few positive comments for all my troubles.
The electric hood really is fun to freak people out with, especially at stoplights. I guess it really is different, because I haven't been able to find any info to help me perfect it. It really is a difficult design to make work with that degree of motion in the space constraint of under the hood area.I think more spring assistance will help it work smoother & faster, but the full up position is not at the end of the travel, meaning my spring assistance needs to be bi-directional, such as a commercial door that opens each way & returns to center. any known items won't work , which means I have to hand make & design every part of the system.
Time to work on it has been a real problem this past year also, trying to get improvements done for a new video next month. The bugcatcher intake is almost polished.......