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Hornby surface mounted pt motor & 6-pin as 3-pin questions Track and electrical/DCC
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New member 8 posts Pranav iyer New member 8 posts
Pranav iyer
Good evening, First of all, sorry for the long post title. I thought it would be easier to find it if others had the same questions. I have reached the point on my layout (no pun intended) where I will now be placing and securing the hornby surface point motors with double sided tape and letting the three wires down through the baseboard. At the other end on the point control system, my track diagram is almost done and I am in a position to start mounting the toggle switches in a day or two. I have three questions, and any answer and/ or advice would be most appreciated. 1. The only way to connect the wires from each point motor is to get under the baseboard and screw them into the choc-block point by point. Or is there another way to do this that has completely escaped me? 2. I have found 6 pin on-off-on toggle switches here, and there are none of the 3 pin available here. So the question is, can I use these instead of the three pin ones by connecting AD, BE and CF and carry on, treating two as 1? 3. This is a silly question probably. Once in the on position, these switches ( the ones I have) stay in that position. That can't be right. Are the ideal point-moor control toggles supposed to come back to the off on their own? Or do I have to use them by a quick flick to the side followed by a quick flick back, to prevent the point from getting burnt? I fear I may have the wrong toggles. If the quick flick to and from is the way to do it, then an led to indicate the chosen route becomes important. Thank you for reading through this, and for the help I know I will get here. Best regards, Pranav
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Les Staff WEUSANDCORR Regular poster 220 posts
Les Staff WEUSANDCORR

Yes you need spring return to

Yes you need spring return to centre toggle switches, and just tap them.Don't hold.If the power stays on you will burn them out. The switches Peco make are mometary and connect when you move the lever through the arc .The power is cut when you reach the end of the throw. You might find a CDU [Capacitor discharge unit] will help. Put it in the wire that feeds power to the switches

Cheers Les 

Les

WEUSANDCORR est 1976     The C&NW is alive in Oz  the land Down under
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tommypelley Regular poster 226 posts
tommypelley

push buttons

The center off will work IF you put a momentary contact push button the control wire. This has the added benefit of being able to tell turnout position from the position of the toggle.. One of my favorite ways is to use pan head screws on the diagram with the control wire attacked to then and a probe for power wire. A simple touch of the probe to the screw activates the switch motor. Of course this would help best with led indication of position
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akarmani Regular poster 298 posts
akarmani

Duplicate Thread

You have two of these threads going.  The other one is called "6-pin toggle instead of 3-pin"

Though you should know.

Art
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