Good morning
I would like to know if anyone has ideas on modifying the new turntable . The turntable uses a split ring to reverse polarity, which works well except it kills power thru that section of rotation which shuts down sound equiped locomotives and then starts them up again after passing thru this section. I was thinking of adding a small piece of phospher bronze to each end of the rotating contact ring to reduce the gap from .050 to about. .005, and adding an AR to change polarity. Do you think that would work or should I just leave well enough alone and just live with the locomotive shutting off?
Thanks,
Philip
I have one of the new 90 ft turntables and I would try to live with shut down. The tolerances are pretty tight and I think you would have trouble narrowing the gap without introducing a a bump in the operation.
By the way have you tried to operate your turntable using your dcc throttle, I have an NCE 5 amp power pro system and have it working but nothing like the instructions?
Mike
No, Mike I haven't used it with the throttle yet. I have it installed in the layout with one track running to it at this point. The controller works quite well I think, but I will definitely give the dcc a try later. I wont mess with it till the warranty is up anyway, but it seems like the contact ring could be routed out and filled with a small piece of bronze that would be flush with the rest of the ring. Another thought would be to bring wire in from overhead and come down to the bridge,but there again you would have to have some form of rotating ring.
thanks,