John Patrick posted:Lionel also talks about using telephone wire for the switches in that they use very little amps. Again is there any problem to using the phone wire red hot wire to the 16 gauge accessory bus?
That's what I did for my RealTrax switches on my layout. Switches only use a brief, momentary shot of power to activate. The rest of the time they sit idle, using no current at all (unless they have an indicator light, which will use very little current). Shouldn't be any problem at all in powering your switches with telephone wire coming from an appropriately-sized bus.
