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<p><font color="#000000">No, I'm not sure what you are attempting to do either. Are you trying to wire them so that they all activate at once? That is possible, but I'm not sure if that's what you want.</font></p><p><font color="#000000">Simply, if you want to save on the number of wires going back to your switch panel, you can connect all the turnout black common wires together. That will give you 11 wires going back to your panel.....a red and green from each of the five turnout and 1 common black.</font></p><p><font color="#000000">Now if your panel is going to be the 5 momentary switches that you bought, you will have the 11 wires to deal with....you cannot have any fewer.</font></p><p><font color="#000000">Now you have to have three wiring contacts on your momentary switches or you can't use them. </font></p><p><font color="#000000">Now, you can daisy chain all the center contacts and attach the black common wire from the layout....then attach one power lead (doesn't matter which one) to this wired group.</font></p><p><font color="#000000">Then you can attach all the greens to one side of each mometary switch....be sure to use the same side only for the greens. Then daisy chain them (I.E. make a common connection between all) and connect this to the other power lead. Do the same for the reds and also connect the them to the <em><strong>same</strong></em> power lead.</font></p><p><font color="#000000">Thus you will have powered the common black set with one transformer lead, and both the reds and greens to the other lead.</font></p><p><font color="#000000">Now, if your switches are really momentary, they will only fire when activated and instantly return to neutral. If they are not really mometary, get these from Atlas, which are the correct things to use, and come with fool-proof metal tabs to link them side by side on a panel. Thats what the screws on the sides are for. They are cheap and have always worked for me if one doesn't forget and lean on them while deaf.</font></p><p>[img]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/switch.gif[/img]</p>
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