Good call on the mag switch being kinda overkill for a DC.
The one thing good about mag switches (locally at least) is when the power here comes back up after an outage, it's like the lineman is flipping the switch on-off-on-off.... a dozen times. Hell on motors. At least my DC remote acts like a mag switch in that any blip in power cuts it off and it stays off until I find the remote to turn it back on.