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The light coming through these windows is sealed out even further by dark side curtains, but you don't need to go that far, just the roller blind by itself works very well. If you're interested, you can read the article about his ultimate home theater. The blackout blinds you see in these pictures were used to block the daylight coming into his home theater. If you make the tension bar at the bottom of the blind slightly less than the width between the u-channel, it causes the blind material to slide perfectly inside the channel, sealing out the light in a very effective manner. We later tried some L channel right-angle molding and it worked just as well, without the feed problem. However, we later found that U channel does not work so well with longer shades as it is hard to get it to feed properly at the top, due to the changing radius of the roller. In his case, the window frames were white and he found some vinyl u-channel that blended in perfectly with the window frame (you can also get it in aluminum in different colors with anodizing). The u-channel is so effective, we could not take a picture from the inside when it was closed because there was no light! Our senior design engineer solved that problem with a very elegant, inexpensive solution, simply by purchasing a few lengths of u channel at the local building supply store. Even if you use blackout material that doesn't curl, there is still usually some light leakage at the edges. If you have seen how regular vinyl roller blinds curl at the edges over time, you know how much light that can admit into the room. So what is the difference between ordinary roller shades and blackout blinds?

With our zwave interface and Vera, or other home automation software like Raspberry Pi, Homeseer, or Event Ghost, you can control your Rollertrol™ motors and other devices with your phone, tablet or PC, while at home or away! Our multi-channel remotes can be programmed to control blackout blinds and night shade motors in various different rooms and hallways throughout the house. You can have multiple night shades in a room and control them individually, or simultaneously. Our radio motors use RF (Radio Frequency) signals from our multi-channel remotes a small antenna in the motor receives the control signal and activates the motor. Our 12v motors are safe for children, pets, and adults there is no shock danger with our low voltage motors, making it a perfect DIY project. 1.25' ABS or PVC pipe in the plumbing department, or 1.25' EMT steel conduit pipe in the electrical deparment works well for the larger motors. Our 'mini' motor fits tubes with an inside diameter as small as 3/4' (18mm), and you can also replace the tube with a bigger size that can use our larger heavy duty 12v motors. Off-the-shelf blackout blinds and night shades can be retrofitted by sliding our tubular motors into the existing tubing, or you can make new ones by attaching some opaque vinyl material or other suitable fabric to a tube and inserting our motors in the end to drive them.

How to set up blackout blinds with RollerTrol™ motors - by Tim Page You may also be interested to see how one of our customers implemented a DIY blackout blind project, with the added bonus of how he interfaced his Insteon automation system with our motors: This will be another short article because it is really very easy, no rocket science here. We have had so many people ask about blackout blinds (with side channels), we decided it was time to explain how we make them.

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