Hello, I just built Code 55 N scale switches and have them all gaped but I have a problem, I do not know how to wire the DPDT Switch to electrify the frog of the turnout. Does anybody know where I can find a diagram of the wiring of this switch?
DC, its going to be a manual throw switch.
Start with Allan Gartner's page on wiring turnounts
Co-owner of the proposed CT River Valley RR (HO scale) http://home.comcast.net/~docinct/CTRiverValleyRR/
Where do you have them gapped? That will determine exactly how the terminals of the switch get wired. I'm assuming you plan to also use the DPDT switch with some type of linkage between it and the throwbar to hold the points?
Martin Myers
I Gapped it below the frog and above the frog, there is currently no electricity in the frog.
I use Caboose manual throws on my N-scale layout. Little electrical contacts in the mechanism throw the power from one to the other and I send that to the frog. A little tricky to install but doable.
For my Tortoise switch machines, I have DPDT switches at the panel cross-wired so that the polarity the machine gets toggles. Separate contacts on the Tortoise switch the frog power. Another triplet of contacts toggles the signals.
Eric
I'm kinda likin this stuff