MicroSwitches

I have a small number of SEEP point motors. I prefer to use tortoise for the majority, but there are some locations where space is at a premium and the much smaller SEEP seemed to be the answer.

Alhough I bought SEEPs with built in polarity switching - I didn't find it reliable, so I bought some microswitches and placed the reed part of the microswitch so it would be moved by the bottom part of the actuating rod that moves the point.

Whilst this sorted the polarity swtiching problems - in practice I just couldn't make the SEEPs reliably reliable - too often they would not throw. On advice from Laurence at CML I upped the voltage of the SEEP feeds - but whilst an improvement still didn't give me the reliability of switching that I want. Therefore all bar one have been binned and fiddly work has been done to put tortoises in their place.

The picture below shows one of the microswitches I used... .. thumbnail:: /images1014/microswitch.jpg