I certainly agree in principle that having a competent engineer design the system is the best advice.
However, I disagree with the following:
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Originally Posted by Civicsman
... Providing any other advice to a person who is obviously has little electrical background is inappropriate,...
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I think that it is unlikely that answering Segwaythedoor's initial question with "That won't work, and go pay an engineer" would be viewed as a friendly answer.
What was done here (along with a lot of other stuff) was to point out various alternatives, and various tradeoffs, and unanswered factors. In other words -
why it isn't simple.
But apparently Segwaythedoor may not be coming back to tell us anything more.