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Dave, you say "what I'm going through."  Some of these NJI switch machines must be 30 years old.  When I built current layout in 1992, I used them and then added DZ1000s.  As initially built and expanded as the layout "just grew," I used double throw momentary center off toggle switches for all switches.  Within last year I decided I really wanted position lights on the control panel.  Added bulbs to the circuits, and found that even 50ma incandescents adversely affected DZq000 switch movement.  Started to use LEDs, but that meant a lot more fine wires behind the panel.  Decided to go to all DZ1000 controllers except for the few NJI machines (too much load for the controllers).  Had ZStuff upgrade my pile of old controllers to the tactile version, and I'm installing them.  This doesn't affect their AIU connection.

 

I don't have any Legacy.  Have no interest in getting it.  All the underlayout wiring has been in for almost 25 years, and works, so there would be no advantage to going to electronic switches, and considerble cost--45 switches.

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