hi everyone there's going to be a quick
video about how a freeway switch works
now many people might know this already
but some people don't because I have had
questions about these so first of all
I'll show you what happens and how it
works so you have your input in the
middle and then two outputs here and
depending on the switch position it will
either be off or it'll be on to one of
the pins so for instance you could bring
your ground in here and then you could
either have it coming out this pin or
you could have it coming out of that pin
so if we use my multimeter you'll see if
I connect this to the middle pin and
then touch the outer pins nothing
happens because it's currently switched
off now if I put it into this position
on and then put one probe on the middle
pin and one on the bottom you'll see
that it's going there so basically it's
taking let's say we put ground in here
and it's flowing it out here touch the
other one you see nothing happens if we
switch it to that other direction then
put our probe in the middle and touch
the top one you'll see that's connected
so depending on whether it's like that
that's off so it's going nowhere if it's
there it's coming in here and going out
there and then if it's in the bottom
position it's coming in there going out
there very simple so let's have a
practical display of that okay so we
have a 12-volt battery here and the
first thing I'm going to do is take the
ground and put that to the middle pin
here of course you're going to use
proper connectors or screw your wires on
but this will do for our demonstration
then I'm going to take a positive from
the battery and put that to one of these
12 volt LED strips
let me find positive okay so that's
going
to that one and then I'm going to take
positive and I'm gonna put it going to
another LED strip so that's there then
I'm going to connect to one pin let me
turn this off first so I'm going to
connect the ground to this strip so now
we have the ground going from the
battery to the middle of the switch
coming off the switch to one strip off
the switch to the other strip if we
switch it one way that strip comes on if
we switch it in the middle
no strips on switch it down this strip
comes on so very simple and very useful
in many applications so I just wanted to
make a quick video showing you how a
freeway switch works if you enjoy the
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