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QUOTE (Busybeas @ 8 Sep 2007, 03:51)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Having searched, I can't find any reference to anyone using this combo on the forum .
You asked: "I note Circuitron list an option 3 method of wiring.. using A/C and fitting diodes... should ( ? ) allow me to keep my chosen switches.."
***The issue is the way the contacts operate, not AC or DC really. If your FL switches are momentary, then yo ucannot use them for tortoise which is a "stall type" arrangement and should have power on all the time. If FL also make a switch for signals which "latches" ie for light signals, then you could use them.
Re AC or DC - actually solenoids are better operated with DC anyway - AC is commonly used as AC supplies are cheap - no other reason at all.
For tortoise power supply - you could use an old mobile phone charger - a tortoise draws almost no current and the average phone charger will drive ten of them easily.
Re DCC decoders such as Switch-it. They work very well, as do the options mentioned by John/Bromsgrove. It all comes down to whether you want to use a switch or a DCC controller to change them.
Richard
Alternatively... I have discovered the NCE Switch- its on the Bromsgrove Models web site.. These appear to switch the tortoise motors via DCC addressing & control OR using switches.. .this seems a good solution ?
If anyone has experience of this combo, I'd be interested in hearing the comments..
cheers
Steve B
PS
Before anyone asks.. I do much prefer the Fleischmann switches to toggles.. and would like a workaround to retain them if possible.