@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:I gave up finding reasonably priced toggles to directly toggle my block zone power on and off. Instead, I ended up using them to flip relays to each power zone. A single transformer feed can power a whole mess of relays all mounted together (several of them come mounted tightly together in groups of 4). Then the toggles just switch a 12V power supply (Dc, I run them off a tiny HO DC transformer I had sitting around) and they flip the 12V DC relay input with tiny currents.
This allows you to use just about any rated toggle switch since you're not switching large currents anymore. You can buy packs of 10 or 100 on Amazon or Ebay, and relay modules are a couple bucks each. I'd guess you could do the relay setup for cheaper than a whole bunch of 10 amp toggles alone. It's bit more wires, but the wires can be much smaller and cheaper, run all the way to a relay mounted near your power zone, and have a much shorter 18ga power feed to the track from the relay.
Just a thought.
Thanks for the reply Jeff! I think you and Stan are on to something here and the use of relays sounds like the best approach.
Bob......
