wacky K-line switches

Do you have the switches wired correctly as to what the manual says to dofor the K-Line switch and not wire it for a Lionel switch? Sometimes you get a factory dud.

FYI; I had trouble with Lionel's switch # 6-23010 in O gauge with Williams engines, Lionel engines worked correctly but not Williams.

Lee F.

Are you trying to use Lionel 022 controllers with light bulbs to control your K-Line switches?

The K-Line switches uses LED's and the controller has a circuit board inside so you have to use that controller with them.

The controller for the K-Line switch is left or right specific as I found out when I first used mine. There should be a L or a R on the controller bottom.

Tony

Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"

Here's a thought - most three-rail switches have a pair of limiting microswitches that tell the switch motor when the switch is fully thrown. If that switch is badly out of whack, or defective, or there's a short in the wiring to it, it might just be causing your rapid switching back and forth. Unless you can get a warranty fix on these things, you're going to have to take them apart, and the limit switch circuit is the first place I'd start looking. I can't tell you exactly how it's set up in there because it's been a long time since I had a K-Line switch apart, but it should be pretty self-evident once you get inside. 

I have a bunch of K-Line switches, albeit O27 42" ones.  But I have hooked up the full 'O' ones too one year so I'm familiar with both.

I think what ALCO Fan said is most likely the culprit.  The controllers have an 'L' or 'R' on the bottom.  You HAVE to use the correct controller.

What you might also try, and I know this works because I've done it, is use a Lionel O27 controller.  No lights or hardware inside of it.  They can control a K-line switch.

I'm wracking my brain trying to remember the other reason that what you are experienced has happened to me but I can't come up with it.  If I do I'll chime back in.

- walt