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Reply to "STAN 2004 Help needed please"

I'll add to Stan's post on this matter as I was the one that asked for "A little relay Help".

I followed Stan's advise and it worked out pretty good. The only down side (if you want to call it that) would be that the relays (two per switch) can only be trigger one at a time. this means that when you trigger another switch within the same grouping the other one loses it's energy and relaxes the switch motor a bit. I overcame this by adding .040 thick wire to the Tortoise machines. That way there is still plenty of tension left in the wire to keep the points of the switch closed in which ever direction it's in. A big thanks to Stan on this one.

There's some pics:

Here are the relays I used. I prewired mine (second pic) on the bottom so I wouldn't have to mess around trying to stuff all those wires into the relays. A word of caution, I purchased another batch on replays to facilitate wiring up my roundhouse and whisker tracks off the turntable and they are trigger with a negative (DC-) feed. My original batch used a 12V DC+.

While I'm at it, here's a pic of my roundhouse/turntable setup:

 

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