Help with Wiring Control Panel Switch

Rick,

You might trying  using  different  Transformer for the DZ-1000 Switch Mchine only. 

Keep the switch machine  separate and see what happens. It sound like Their is

revise feed back causing low voltage problem.     

Good luck. Please let us know how things work out for you.

John   kb2agpjohn@aol.com  

John, thank you for the reply. The DZ-1000's are wired up the way as the DZ-2500 and they work fine...just the way I want them to. The DZ-2500 is what is different. The controller that comes with the DZ-2500 has but a single button to push to activate the turnout whereas the DZ-1000 controllers have two buttons, so I am assuming that there is something inherent in the electronics to cause the difference. By the way, all of the turnouts are controlled by one of the accessory ports on the MTH Z-4000 so they are at a constant 14 volts I believe. 

Again, on the DZ-1000 when I flip my switch to the up position, the turnout activates and the green LED I have wired up lights and stays lit. When I flip the switch down, the turnout activates to the other position and the red LED I have wired lights up and stays lit. 

But the DZ-2500 does not do the same and it is wired exactly like the other four. When I flip the switch up, the turnout activates and the green LED lights for a brief time, but then goes almost completely out although there seems to be a slight amount of power to it as a glimmer of a dot of light still prevails. Flipping the switch down, activates the turnout, but the red LED remains "dead".  My guess is that the way the DZ controller is wired does not allow me to get the same results I want on my control panel. 

Rick

Take a voltage reading on the 1000 to controller versus the 2500. I would suspect the 2500 would have a lower voltage, which may not light a red led, or a plus/minus DC output.

You may have to power the light circuit separately in the controller and place the switch trigger wires as they are.

or reverse the wires to the red led as it may be getting the -DC voltage.

Anyway, a meter should tell you what's going on differently.

Thanks, Carl. I will take a look. 

RicK:

I have never used the DZ-2500 so can't offer any advice. What I can say is to contact Dennis directly.

Dennis R. Zander
Z-Stuff for Trains
420 Mills St.
Hinsdale, IL 60521
585-377-0925
www.z-stuff.net

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RicK:

I have never used the DZ-2500 so can't offer any advice. What I can say is to contact Dennis directly.

Dennis R. Zander
Z-Stuff for Trains
420 Mills St.
Hinsdale, IL 60521
585-377-0925
www.z-stuff.net

Best answer. Call Dennis.