I've only had DZ1000 turnout machines/controls for about four years. Here is my discovery today hoping to save a headache for someone else down the line!
04-05-1015 I had an “AH HA!” moment today!!! Hopefully this will be a long story short. DZ1000 turnout machines and switch control have two LED lights, one red, the other green. When a turnout’s points are set for straight the green light on both the turnout machine and switch control should be green. When the turnout’s points are set for the divergent (curved) route the lights on both the turnout machines and switch control should be red.
Also the switch control for a “left” hand turnout is set up differently from a right “hand” turnout in that the lights on the switch control are reversed. On one the red is on top. On the other the green is on top.
I have always been informed that if the light on the turnout machine does NOT match the switch control one may simple remove the light and trade places with the other light.
What I have never been told but discovered by chance today is that when you trade places with these lights it MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD how you place the light back into the insert. Each light has two “poles” extending from its base. One is long, the other short.
YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST PLACE THE LIGHT INTO THE INSERT THE “correct” way! If you don’t both lights may activate, neither, light may activate, or some combination thereof may occur.
I’m happy that after two pain staking hours of frustration trying to put tiny, tiny, miniature poles into tiny, tiny, miniature sockets, that FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY!!!, ALL OF MY TURNOUTS MACHINES’ AND SWITCH CONTROL LAMP INDICATORS ARE CORRECT!!!!
