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- From: romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.railroad
- Subject: Re: remote peco switches
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:09:46 GMT
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- In article <Bxxn2I.Gz7@math.uwaterloo.ca> rajacobs@plg.uwaterloo.ca (Rory Jacobs) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >I recently purchased some N scale #6 Peco (electrofrog) switches, and
- >the switch machines. Eagerly I awaited there arrival in the mail, and
- >today I received them.
- >
- >So I hooked up the switch machine to the turnout, and the switch
- >machine doesn't have enough force to over come the spring to turn
- >the points (?) (ie. to switch the direction of the turnover).
-
- One possibility is that you are not driving the motors (machines)
- with sufficient electrical power (voltage). Read all the specs
- that come with the machines, esp regarding voltage of the power
- source.
-
- If you match that OK, and it still doesn't work, try a higher
- voltage anyway. If you only apply the power for short bursts
- you probably won't damage the machines. Check into a model
- railroad electrical project book if you want to build a
- "snap action power supply" with real muscle. Such supplies
- give a high voltage surge which lasts a short time and will
- throw the most wimpy machines with authority.
-
- Of course, it's possible that you have a switch with an
- unnaturally stiff spring - you'd have to experiment with using
- various of the switches to see if that's the case.
-
- Michael Stimac
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- These opinions are not necessarily anyone's but my own.
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