Waiting for Walthers 90' DCC turntable

[rrebell]

rogertra

My four year old Walthers Build Ups turntable operated great until a few weeks ago when, without warning, when I went to turn an engine, it just started to rotate and would stop.  Tried reprogramming, same result, kept on rotating.  

Phoned Wathers who were great and sent me another control box, no questions asked.  Connect new box to turntable and? Turntable again would not stop rotating.  At present, the $300+ turntable is out of service.  I replaced the 'table with a quick, unpowered kitbashed one just so I can still turn locos and use the roundhouse.  Guess I'll have to phone Walthers again.  :(  

 

 

 

Did you examine the contacts inside the pit? Since they make contact by the weight of the bridge, if one is not making contact, things can go wrong. Do you know anyone with the same bridge unit to swap out and see?

[erosebud]

Sorry to hear it. That's why I'm waiting for the newer version...and waiting.

[rogertra]

My four year old Walthers Build Ups turntable operated great until a few weeks ago when, without warning, when I went to turn an engine, it just started to rotate and would stop.  Tried reprogramming, same result, kept on rotating.  

Phoned Wathers who were great and sent me another control box, no questions asked.  Connect new box to turntable and? Turntable again would not stop rotating.  At present, the $300+ turntable is out of service.  I replaced the 'table with a quick, unpowered kitbashed one just so I can still turn locos and use the roundhouse.  Guess I'll have to phone Walthers again.  :(  

 

 

[Arras88]

There is a new product from Walthers - TT 110'.
It has improved a control box - 180 degree rotation with one button.
It should be announced on their web page this week. I hope that TT 90' will also have this new control box.

I've been waiting for TT 90' about 1.5 year as well.

[rrinker]

 There's nothing really "improved" on the new ones. The old ones work fine with DCC. The difference is, the new one allows you (in a REALLY awkward way) to spin the turntable from your DCC throttle. Otherwise, operation is identical. You can;t power the old one from DCC track power, but on both versions, the power to the rails on the bridge is completely independent of the power used to operate the electronics.

               --Randy

 

[erosebud]

Are e-bay turntables the newer, improved DCC, or would I be getting an older one reputed to be buggy or harder to hook up?

[rrebell]

Try e-bay, got mine there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RR_Mel]

I went with CMR for my turntable, they are Acrylic laser cut kits and the end product is very accurate.  I had never built anything that was totally Acrylic before so it was a new experience for me.  I built their 135’ turntable for my huge articulated locomotives and it works very good.

http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/turntables-3.aspx

 

This is a link to my turntable construction project.  The CMR doesn’t come with the superstructure shown on my post, that is a Mel scratch built.

 

 

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/p/135-foot-turntable-project.html

 

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

[erosebud]

I'm pretty sure I've raised this before, but here I am again wondering if my now-two-year backorder will really materialize here.  I see references to this TT in various posts, so some must have been produced, but I get the impression that the DCC hookup or operation had problems.  Are my impressions wrong--was the product re-tooled or something, or am I reading things wrong?

I'd appreciate hearing from experienced modelers about the likelihood that there'll actually be a new version, and likely when.  Failing that, can you point me to some alternative brands of TT and a simple DCC auto-reverse setup.  (I don't need indexing or stationary decoder capacity; I just want to turn locos, align them by eyeball, and send them on their way with correct polarity.)

Thanks for the help.