Tortoises and wiring in general

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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For what it’s worth, here’s a picture I reference frequently. On the bottom it shows which Tortoise contacts close depending on the throw direction (contacts from left #1 to #10).

wiring

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Terry,

That is one very nice wiring diagram. It is really helpful to keep a set of wiring diagrams close by when working on the bench.

But, I am afraid that diagram is way to complicated for my feeble mind. I typically wire my Tortoises to control my turnouts and pairs of turnouts serving as crossovers as well as to control my signals. For this purpose, I keep a simple wiring diagram handy that I drew on Power Point. It shows wires from #1 and #8 back to my DPDT switch, #7 to my power source and #5 and #6 to my signal device.

Anything more complicated than that, and I am in trouble.

Thanks for sharing your wiring diagram.

Rich

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There are only eight contacts!

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richhotrain,

Any chance you would share your diagram with the rest of us?

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As I say, this is a pretty simplistic diagram, but it serves my purposes well:

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Thanks.

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I seriously hope that was just a typo and your power supply is DC. What is drawn will NOT work with an AC power supply.

–Randy

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Randy,

Thanks for catching that. My power supply is DC, not AC. That is an old wiring diagram that I mislabeled and never caught.

This is my second posting blunder in the last 24 hours, so it is time for me to get a life.

Rich

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Sorry, my earlier post of my simplified Tortoise wiring schematic was wrong in that I mistakenly indicated the power source as AC. It should have shown the power source as DC, as indicated in this corrected schematic: