[Hai-users] Motorized blind question

[Joseph K. Vossen]

a few months ago I bought a Somfy motor on ebay for about $45.00.  I haven't 
had a chance to do anything with it, but Somfy motors appear there once in 
awhile; you may want to chk there.

On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:41 am, you wrote:
> Has anyone been able to retrofit existing shades or blinds into
> motorized units?  I have Hunter Douglas PowerRise blinds which are
> battery powered, but I'd like to retrofit them to a wired system for
> more reliability and better performance.
>
> Is it possible to purchase just the motors or the headrail assemblies so
> that I can reuse my existing material?  I know that companies like BTX
> and Somfy offer this sort of thing, but their cost to retrofit is about
> $300/shade and they won't sell the motors separately.  I'm sure I could
> do the retrofit if I could get my hands on the appropriate motors.
>   - Dave