DAISY CHAIN POWER TAPS FOR DPDT TOGGLES

IMO you can feed all of them with a daisy chain. or create 2 block of 10.

Andre.

Actually there will be about 30 toggles when all the tracks are in. Maybe Ill do a couple blocks of 15. Use 2 seperate wall warts and have about 15 on each one. Hmmmmmm

I have all the toggles in place so far for the track that we have in place. I pre-wired as much of it at the bench as I could. Currently you see 2 seperate circuits to power the Tortiose machines, hence the red/green and black/white daisy chains.

 

 

 

 

One question I have reguarding the wal warts I'm using to power the switch machines. They are 2 identical wal warts, showing an output of 12vdc at 1000ma.

When I put the volt meter on the bare wires of each wal wart, they read 17v. WHy are they showing 17v and will it hurt the tortoise machines?

Wall wart transformers are generally rated under a load so when they're in a no load condition they generally read a few volts higher. Measure there output at 750ma and I think you'll find them much closer to 12 volts.

Ron