Acme Switch Controllers & Terminal Panels for All Gauges

[cheech]

Does anyone have any experience with these panels as a way of controlling GG/Ross switches?

Hook up techniques? Do they come with lights? Do they work with Z1000s?

thanks

ralph

[fwright]

The Acme switch controllers I'm familiar with are single or multiple banks of push buttons for controlling any 2 coil switch machine.  The one my father had was good quality, and reasonable to wire.  Acme makes a variety of configurations - surface and flush mount, #of sets of push buttons, with or without indicator lights, etc.  They certainly save a lot of space over Atlas, Lionel, and other similar switch controllers.

The one drawback, IMHO, is the same problem as most other switch controllers - keeping track of which controller controls which switch.  For this reason, I prefer to use push buttons or toggle switches mounted in a panel diagram on larger layouts.

just my thoughts

Fred W

[bfskinner]

ralph (cheech),

For what it's worth, back when I had a "permanent" layout I used a bank of 8 non-illuminated Acme switch controllers to  operate 022 turnouts for years without any problems whatsoever.  Hook-up was simplicity itself. Have no experience with other brands, but the Acme website says they will control all kinds of switches. They also make illuminated versions.

More info at        http://www.acmemodel.com/railroad.htm

Hope this helps.