As I mentioned earlier in this thread I had planned to wire my new E-Z Streets switches to be operated using a Lionel TMCC hand held CAB-1. For those that are interested in doing the same thing, well a few days ago I finally completed wiring one of my switches. I wired it into an existing SC-1 which had 2 unused pairs of terminals and the wiring was quite easy. However, in my first attempt I couldn’t get it to switch both directions because I didn’t know I had a bad terminal on my SC-1. Once I realized that the problem was with the SC-1 and not the switch, I wired it to a different pair of SC-1 terminals and it worked perfectly. Granted the CAB-1 and SC-1 are now outdated technology with Legacy now being the Lionel standard for command control, but for those of us who don’t want to spend $$$$ to upgrade to Legacy, this will work for us.
Essentially all you need to do is wire the “thru” and “out” terminals on an SC-1 in parallel with the two OUTSIDE green wires which are hard-wired into the switch and connect into the controller. Plus you need to wire up the controller whether you intend to use it or not because the power for the switch motor comes from those red wires supplied with the switch that plug into the controller. As mentioned I used an existing SC-1 which already had the layout ground wire attached to one of the center switch terminals.
If you don’t have an extra 3-conductor set of Bachmann green wires with that unique connector they use, you will have to cut the two outside green wires. Then connect one wire to the wire from the SC-1 “thru” terminal and then to one of the remaining green wires that leads into the controller. Then repeat that for the SC-1 “out” wire and voila, it works! I did not want to cut the original switch wires (that’s the collector in me) and a friend gave me an extra Bachmann green 3-wire set with the connector, so that is why I only wired up one switch so far.
If anyone would like a wiring diagram I will hand-draw one and scan and post it.
Then just today at a local train show I found two more of those Bachmann green 3-wire sets with the connectors so I will be wiring my other two E-Z street switches for CAB-1 control soon.
Bill
