Self made switch motor
Hi Nick,
I have been busy with this hobby for many years now and I also say,"A dollar saved is a dollar ernd.
I build my oen wissels annd switch motors, I have had a few missers but I kept at it and I kept getting better, and the thing is I gust used what I could find, I would go to tjhe elektrical dump store and buy motors for $0.50 and I would buy them all at once, about 12 to 15 of them, and from these motors I would make my switch motors.
I would switch them with a DPDT switch, because my switch machines would turn them self's of when the wissel reached its end point, for this I used micro switches, one at each end and I added one to change the currant of the frog or to change a signal.
When I first started I bought radio coils I think you call them, rewound them so that thay could withstand about 20 volts for a short time to see if thay would burn out, and then connected them to a 16 volt trafo and used push buttons to switch them.
Here are some photo's of what I have made over the years.
Photo's under paperklip.
Erne.