Thanks for getting back to me. This is a new kit bought a month ago. It has a power pack and LionChief controller. The automatic crossing gate is the three wire version. The activator is the two wire version.
I was able to get it to work by connecting the red wire from the gate to the wire connected to the center rail and the yellow wire from the gate to the isolated rail. I ended up soldering a wire to the tab of the outside rail under the track outside/before the isolated section to provide power to raise the gate after the train leaves the isolated section.
Ot seems to to work fine (with both gates)
My goal was to to keep it simple so my 6 year old grandson could easily hook it up or take it off his set at home.
The challenge now is what kind of easy connector could I use to plug in the gate to the isolated activator track rather than have it permanently wired. Some sort of a three wire m/f connector would be great. I even thought about using an RJ11 phone jack and plug. Do you know what kind of modular jack plugs in the plug and play version?
thanks.
