I see that Walthers is offering the owners of the DC 90' and 130' built up turntables a art # 922-2851I
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/922-2851
With a MSRP of $179.98 I wonder how many owners of the DC turntables will opt to upgrade their existing turntables.
Given two threads in the past day in the Electronics and DCC section on the new DCC turntables, there seems to be mass confusion about just what this does.
Bottom line is, unless you actually want to control the movement of the turntable from your DCC throttle, you DO NOT NEED THIS. The existing turntables run on DCC just fine, using the control box to select the desired stall
SO before people get in a panic that they need to spend $180 more because they just switched to DCC, or because they are finally getting aroudn to isntalling that turntable the bought 4 years ago and left on the shelf.. no, Absolutely not needed.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
Darn, I shelled out $180 to buy the conversion kit before I read your reply, Randy, just to be sure that my older Walthers 130' turntable still worked on my DCC layout.
LOL Just kidding.
I cannot imagine a whole bunch of people doing this. Heck, I disabled the indexing feature long ago and just operate the turntable manually from the control box. I see no advantage to this upgrade.
Rich
Alton Junction
Hello: I was reading your posts on the walthers 130' turn table and wondered, how did you disable the the indexing feature, and how did you maintain DCC on the turntable itself to run the trains through.
George