I recently purchased the Walther's Built Up HO 90' turntable (933-2849) to replace my old Walther's HO 90' turntable (with motor kit) since I am tired of trying to get the tracks to line up and want the ease of indexed track alignment.
Since I have 2 lead tracks and 7 roundhouse tracks, I need 9 discrete positions for the turntable. I would like to mount pushbutton switches on my fascia such that a simple push of a button will align the track properly. I really don't want to mount the Walther's control box. I'm using an NCE DCC system and do have a Mini-Panel, but doubt if a have 9 panel openings left. Any thoughts?
John
If it's the newest DCC version, you can control the rotation via DCC, however the design of the indexing electronics is not such that you can just have individual pushbuttons per track. The normal function, after programming, is that you select the track number ont he control box and the turntable moves to line up that track.
An index system line the NY Railway Signal unit works the way you want, but just the electronics there cost more than the entire Walthers turntable with indexing.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Hi Randy:
I purchased the most recent version which has an incorporated decoder for rotating the turntable to selected locations via complete DCC control. If there is an assigned decoder address for each turntable position, couldn't I use the NCE Mini-Panel to take fascia-mounted pushbutton inputs to send a specific DCC signal to the turntable decoder?