Reply to "Using a generic toggle switch with a Lionel Fastrack remote switch"

Bob MillerOGR Forum Member

gunrunnerjohn posted:
I like the idea of a small SPDT center off toggle and a 2-pin bi-color LED. That will substitute for the control and give you the switch position indication. Just add a resistor around 220 ohms in series with the LED. The LED connects to the RSC Lights on the switch to ground.

I'm late to the party on this thread but it's in line with what I'm working on now. I want to make an "old fashioned" control panel for my layout & use bi-color LED's as switch indicators along with mini-switches to operate the turnouts. If I wire the switch as Rob suggests, do I connect the led feed to the RSC connection on the bottom of the turnout to put an indicator light at the turnout, and run another wire back to the control panel for a second indicator? Can I accomplish the same thing using a DPDT switch & a 3-pin LED at the control panel?

4/28/188:45 PM

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