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Atlas snap switchs don't have contacts for a lite and being AC are only momentary on to switch. What I've done is glue a small styrene tab to the throw bar. Drill a 3/8" hole beside the throwbar and mount a Radio Shack window alarm reed switch in the hole. Radio Shack also has some very small ceramic magnets. I move one of the magnets around on the styrene tab till I figure out where it has to be to trigger the reed switch then glue it into place. The switch goes one way, the reed triggers. The other way, the reed is not triggered. I hook the reed switch up to switch a DPDT relay. The relay then controls what ever lights you want, and you get a positive indication of where the switch is physically. My indicator lights are a searchlight on each side of the switch with red and green lights on each. Which ever way the switch is turned I get a green, and a red on the otherside.
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