Motorised Leveling by Powered Steadies

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Winterhoff is a German trailer component manufacturer that first produced this format of corner steady - hence its name. Because its a good design as well as an easy one to copy many others now make Winterhoff steadies, but they're still called Winterhoff if they look like the original product.

Existing Winterhoff steadies are motorised by fitting 12VDC gearmotors in a DIY procedure easily accomplished at home by anyone with moderate tool skills. The motors are wired back to a control unit which communicates Bluetooth to the mobile phone app.

Motorised Leveling with Winterhoff Steadies

The App is also has remote control for a caravan leveler The screen shows 2 leveling crosshairs which will centre when the caravan surface on which the mobile phone lies is level. Control for four leveling motors is provided on the same screen. The Leveling Controller support four bi-directional 12V DC motors with up to 25A of DC current. No limit switches are required as the controller senses end-of-travel and cuts the motor current automatically.

The mobile phonre is placed flat on a table and you tap the UP/DOWN pushbuttons to drive the corner lift motors until the dots centre on the crosshairs.

Leveling motors are supplied with ramped startup current and are automatically shut down when a current spike indicates that end-of-travel has been reached in either direction. Leveling motor current is diplayed on the screen of the mobile phone.

The motorising of the corner steadies is an easy DIY project available to anyone with moderate hand skills. See a step by step tutorial and video here.

Calibrating the Leveling Crosshairs

To eliminate instrument errors that may exist in the mobile phone or its jacket you can calibrate the crosshairs to zero by placing the phone on a flat and level surface, and then double clicking the DactylTech logo while pressing eitherof the crosshairs. The phone will buzz and the red dots will centre.

This calibration will apply until the app is terminated.

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Motorised Winterhoff Steady

Motorised Corner Steady

An easy DIY project requiring only common tools and no special skills.