Greetings from a newbie to model railroading. I am beginning construction of my first layout (N gauge), and based on recommendations in this forum decided to go with Circuitron Tortoise switch machines and Atlas custom turnouts. I'm pretty handy with wiring and electronics, but I do have a question about wiring the switch machines. The instructions provide a method for using either DC wiring or AC (rectified through a set of diodes). I think the AC wiring solution has some nice advantages - only two wires need to be run to each machine, while still being able to have a pair of indicator LEDs on the control panel, and also on the layout to signal the state of the turnout. The instructions say that the machine will work a bit slower in this method compared to wiring with DC. Anyone have any practical experience with this? Any advice to share?
-Chip
-Chip