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 Posted - August 29 2010 : 7:07:03 PM
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Two nights ago I was running some trains and noticed a burned plastic/electrical smell. I thought somebody was burning trash or something, thought nothing of it, and it went away. I forgot about it until last night, when I went to operate a switch and nothing happened. Inspection of the Atlas switch machine revealed this:
It's completely melted a hole in the top, and it's sagging through the bottom. I'm sure I hadn't even operated that switch the night before, because it's on a siding where I park my passenger train. After I took the switch machine off and made sure the wires were secured and separated, I pushed the switch lever a couple times. I noticed that the power light on the transformer flickered as if a switch was attached, but nothing was attached to it. I'm thinking the lever is bad, maybe sticking or something.
Anybody seen this happen before?
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Posted - August 29 2010 : 7:18:06 PM
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| Your switch lever stuck, not common but it does happen. That's why many modelers go to momentary pushbuttons.
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Posted - September 17 2010 : 3:56:10 PM
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Even pushbuttons go bad and remain shorted giving the same results.
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