May I please ask for electrical advice ? I have a DC G gauge garden railway I have built during lockdown.
I recently purchased from Brimel Components 4 x MR325 reverse polarity switches with indicator lights green /red to power my LGB turnouts.
I installed the units into my mimic board and they were working perfectly until last week. The problem is that after about 15 minutes use all
the green/ red indicator lights start flashing OFF and ON non stop, this continues until I switch everything off. The mimic board is housed in a fully waterproof control box.I am powering the MR325 switches with a 240v mains adapts that is putting out 1amp. I have been told this is sufficient output to activate the switches and the related track turnouts. I tried a 2amp adaptor but this made things worse.
On closer examination the mains adaptor is getting quite hot.
I than switch it off and when it cools down everything works OK for about 15 mins and then the flashing starts again.
May I please ask your advice ? Is the mains adaptor suitable or do I need to change it
to something else ? I would be very great full for members advice to solve the problem.
Thank you in advance.
I recently purchased from Brimel Components 4 x MR325 reverse polarity switches with indicator lights green /red to power my LGB turnouts.
I installed the units into my mimic board and they were working perfectly until last week. The problem is that after about 15 minutes use all
the green/ red indicator lights start flashing OFF and ON non stop, this continues until I switch everything off. The mimic board is housed in a fully waterproof control box.I am powering the MR325 switches with a 240v mains adapts that is putting out 1amp. I have been told this is sufficient output to activate the switches and the related track turnouts. I tried a 2amp adaptor but this made things worse.
On closer examination the mains adaptor is getting quite hot.
I than switch it off and when it cools down everything works OK for about 15 mins and then the flashing starts again.
May I please ask your advice ? Is the mains adaptor suitable or do I need to change it
to something else ? I would be very great full for members advice to solve the problem.
Thank you in advance.