It has been a while since I posted. The inside of my home is undergoing complete renovation - new tile and cabinets throughout, fireplace makeover with stone and a nice tiled in shower. The stuff I had was 15 years old and looked like sub par quality. Anyway the furniture is piled up in the garage and there are about 1M boxes stored in the various bedrooms.
I was able to get into the train room for some today. As mentioned in the previous post I am replacing Atlas snap relays with DZ-1008's wherever I have Ross turnouts with DZ-1000 motors and non-derail wires attached. I did three today an d the results turned out real good. There are two major issues in using the Atlas snap relays in non-derail-
1. (I know why for this) - when a car passes over the isolated rail the relay will work fine but the problem is if there are a whole bunch of cars passing over the isolated rail. Then the relay keeps being activated till it heats up and melts plastic.
2. (I don't know the reason for this) - with the snap relay in the circuit as a car passes over the isolated track the wheels spark like crazy. Track power and turnout motor power are separate however the grounds are all tied together. Once I switch in the DZ-1008 the sparking disappears. I am still scratching my head over this one.........
So my plan is this:
I have a mixture of Atlas turnouts with Atlas O motors, Ross turnouts with DZ-1000 motors and Atlas O turnouts with DZ-1000 motors. I will use the Atlas snap relay with all Atlas turnouts/motors and the 1008 relay with all Ross and Atlas turnouts with DZ-1000 motors. I have DZ-1011R detector/lights connected to both Atlas snap relays and DZ-1008's to indicate turnout position with no issues. I have some MTH dwarf signals I am going to try also. There should be no issue using them with either the snap relay nor the 1008's.
