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Two Toggles on One Tortoise?
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<P>I'll have to put in a "works for me" on this one too. I use bicolor LEDs but otherwise the diagram shown above from wiringfordcc.com. I mount the LED's with their polarity in opposite directions (i.e. one is always green when the other is red and vice-versa). Then I mount the LED's in the panel one indicating main, one indicating diverging track. So while technically it only indicates the polarity, not actual turnout position, the two have so far proved identical on my layout... </P> <P>[img]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/kristianj/2switch1machine.jpg[/img]</P> <P>Once I get the tortoise wired and the LED's properly positioned, the green LED is always the selected route through the turnout. In a two-toggles, one motor setup, it is, in fact, the toggle switch itself, whether flipped "up"or "down," that definitely doesn't indicate anything. </P> <P>You can also add more tortoises in parallel to have two-toggles-X-tortoises I find this useful for crossovers, double-slips, etc.: run all tortoises off one set of switches to ensure everything is set right all the time.</P> <P>[img]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/kristianj/2switch2machines.jpg[/img]</P> <P> </P>
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