The Pot in my Annie tender has 5 lugs with wires connected. I am familiar with three lug pots. What are the other two side lugs for? I cannot find any wiring diagrams for 5 lug pots.
I ripped out the circuit board as I am installing a Zimo decoder with sound. While the Zimo can control the volume thru programming variables and inputs, it is cumbersome with my NCE controller. It would be a lot easier to just hook the pot to the speaker. I just want to know if I need to use the side lugs for anything?
Thanks
Dan
power on off I believe, i.e. an on/off switch.
Greg
Thank you. After looking at it closely I figured that is what it's for. But I'll be darned if I can find a schematic, that I can understand, which shows how to wire those two lugs. I'm gonna guess that I would wire it in series between the + wire from the decoder and lug 1 (input)on the Pot? Or would I put on the ground side?
I think you can put those 2 connections anywhere that can interrupt the power from the battery.
Greg
Well, the sound wouldn't work as wired so I bypassed the pot and wired straight to the speaker. Works fine now. I know I don't need the on off/volume knob with DCC but it was there and would have been convenient.
I'm not sure how it was supposed to be wired up but my way was obviously wrong.