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HO / Switch goes one way but not the other?
July 31, 2012, 12:46:06 PM
Ok, so just picked up a couple of the black eztrack turnouts from my LHS on Friday, the left hand switch will switch to one side when you use the little momentary press button, but not the other side. When investigating further it appears that its because the little magnetic solenoid on the bottom of the switch will pull the metal plate but wont push it. There is a bare fraction of movement when pressing to push the switch to opposite side of track, and when using the little manual peg on the switch everything moves perfectly.

Unfortunately, had a friend over this weekend and we were expanding the layout and rewiring a few things and he cut the green wire from the turnout to the switch and wired in more wire, so now that its been modified, cant return it to local hobby store.

Any ideas on how to get it to switch both ways? In advance of troubleshooting issues, I have tried it with the other switch from the right hand turnout,  and the right hand turnout and switch I picked up works perfectly together, but right hand switch with left hand turnout has same issue only switches one way.