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What is the difference between the old 130' turntable and the new DCC turntable of Walthers

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What is the difference between the old 130' turntable and the new DCC turntable of Walthers
Posted by southernpacificgs4 on Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:44 PM

I have the old 130' turntable of Walthers, and saw that they came with a DCC version of this turntable and a kit to upgrade the old one.

What is the difference between the new and old?

Yours sincerely

 

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Posted by rrebell on Thursday, May 29, 2014 9:21 PM

The new one has a decoder and a digital readout.

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Posted by southernpacificgs4 on Friday, May 30, 2014 4:05 AM

Beside a decoder and readout is it than not special prepared for DCC? I explain: that the table is wired in a manner that the voltage automatic chance in th correct way when it arrives at a spur?

Ex: your left rail is wired with a red wire and the right rail is wired with a black wire(also the rails are likewise wire an the table of the turntable), so if you turn the table there wil be always a position were the table's right rail(with the black wire) and the left rail(with the red wire) will be at a incoming or outgoing spur with the reverse coler code.

Or I am missing something?  

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Posted by richhotrain on Friday, May 30, 2014 5:33 AM

The mechanism on the Walthers turntable is designed such that as the turntable is rotated, it will match polarities without the need for an auto-reverser or DPDT switch, assuming that the stall tracks and approach tracks are all wired in phase.

One exception to that general statement is a situation that I encountered.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/p/181396/1987593.aspx#1987593

Rich

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Posted by southernpacificgs4 on Friday, May 30, 2014 7:05 PM

Thanks for the info and link.

 

Yours sincerely

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