Ok, now we are getting some place. My question to Barry and Richie and anyone else out there who wants to field this question. Switch track and AIU attachment. Unless you can convince me otherwise, those holes are too tiny for anything above 26 gauge. A customer service guy at Model Train Stuff told me to use telephone wire. I agree. The screws on the switch and the AIU are "eyeglasses" ear piece small. So the holes can't be any bigger.
If I hook the switches to the AIU, for hand held remote capability of course, I can't keep running around the room flipping switches, won't that degrade signal as well? Powering them via the natural connection of the track is degrading or can degrade the signal. If I go ahead and connect them to the AIU, will that become an alternative powering source. My confusion is that the switch track by nature of the beast have to be connected to the track you are running the trains so by nature if the track is connected to the TIU so you can use the DCS system to run the trains, whether you connect to the auxiliary side and find a way to power the pieces alternatively, or leave it as is, you still run the signal through the switch motor by virtue of having the track piece connected to other track pieces on your layout.
I hope that makes sense. I wrote it and still can't quite figure out what I said
