Hello everyone;
I am just about done wiring my layout, including the 7 O22 switches. If you recall I had a bunch of the controllers with broken contact arms and was considering using the spdt modern switches instead. Well I'm happy to say I have 6/7 of them working. I found a silver based conductive adhesive (available thru Amazon) that I used to cold solder 4 of the contact arms back in position, and 2 have held up to use so far. I apparently needed to use a good glop of the stuff for it to hold, since two of the 4 I repaired broke on use, So those two I just soldered back on with decent results, as I am just learning to solder. Now I just have one controller that is giving me trouble. The switch itself lights up OK (for now getting its power from the track) and for 10 seconds the controller was lighting up and activating the switch just fine. Then it went dark: no controller lights and no switching action. The bulbs are good, but I could not measure any voltage off the switch terminals! Can someone tell me how to place my voltmeter to read voltage coming off the switch terminals, and at the controller. That would help me track this down. I am pretty sure it's wired correctly since as I said it was working for a short while. Oh and by the way, this controller has conductive epoxy holding up one contact, and a bit of solder reinforcing the other. Thanks for all your help.
