Can someone provide me with the wiring diagram for one fastrack swith to throw another in the opposite direction. Ihe layout i'm building was in the lionel manual that came with sets in the late 1950's on page 39, "Automatic Control of Trains". That diagram shows wiring for 022 switches.
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The wiring is the same, just make the 4 connections with two wires to the trigger rails of the switches instead of the binding posts.
Thank you, but i don't understand what terminals the wires attach to. With the 022 switches all i had to do was duplicate the diagram.
If you simply want to slave one Fastrack Remote Switch to another such that when the Main switch throws the Slave also throws only two wires are required. On the underside of every track switch you will find a set of terminals to which the remote control is wired:
The terminals of interest are "THRU" and "OUT". Grounding "THRU" causes the points to be set straight and grounding "OUT" causes the points to be set for the diverging route. Two wires run from these two terminals on the Slave to the corresponding terminals on the Main track switch is all that is required. If the Slave needs the points to throw opposite to the Main just reverse which wire goes to "THRU" and which to "OUT".
Incidentally, the Main switch is also slaved to the Slave in that if a train approaches the Slave in such a way as to throw the points because or the non-derailing feature the points of the Main switch will also align for the train to pass safely through it a swell.
Thank you, One more question. This is for a conventional layout. i am wiring the switches for fixed voltage. Do i need to run a power and a ground or can i just run a power wire, like i did for 022 switches?
Ground will be carried through the track (outside rails). However, with Fastrack I don't rely on that. I run a hot and ground buss with track drops every 3'-4'.
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