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Following the good advice on this forum I bought a discharge unit.  Here is a picture of my Circuitron Snapper (just taped to the frame with electricians tape).  I modified it with two jacks in place of solder pins so it would accept two regular 3.5mm inline plugs. These go to my switch control stations which are separated by 25+ feet.  And another jack to accept a regular power adapter input.  Now I can unplug this if I should need to. <img src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/DSC02641.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /> So, having more money than brains (in this case and generally with electronics) I bought this unit and had it in place many days earlier than if I had tried to make some.....especially if I thought I needed to make 7 or so discharge units....which seems odd, but I am no expert. And with a 12VAC power source just like the one for my Zephyr controller it fires over 48 switches most of which are connected with phone wire connected to the little switch wires.
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