Its definately just a cool factor, in reality I'll probably just go with gas struts, but was wondering if anybody else had done it.
I recently sold my one man clay thrower I built in High School. I put a power door lock atuator on the pull mechanism, and wired in a delay circuit from Radio Shack, and tripped the thing with an old (internally modified) guitar pedal. Tap pedal with foot, wait 5-30 seconds (delay was variable) then the trap trigers and a buzzer goes off (can be turned off). AND, the whole thing was powered from my 7 pin trailer connector.
