Hornby R070 00 Gauge Turntable Electric

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The reason for the round hole is to avoid the turning of the Water Crane by hand straining the mechanism...in theory, the round hole would also avoid the Water Crane spinning around under motor drive and hitting something, or a part of someone!

I was wondering whether anyone had attempted to muffle the noise - e.g. inserting sound deadening material on the inside of the motor/gear housing, or mounting the TT on some kind of insulating mat, or . . . . . . ? Because the motor itself is quite quiet. In DCC, are the turnouts made live by the roating rail turning to them, or must a separate connection be made?"

to them continues to do so and the isolation continues to avoid shorts during rotation. All you need to be aware of is outlet polarity on the reversed polarity outlets and getting that correct with respect to layout polarity. From my point of view, I run my trains via Railmaster programs, including the movement of the turntable. I prefer to be as automated as possible so that I can enjoy watching the trains, rather than spend a lot of time and mental energy controlling them myself. But as I say, that is only my personal preference. removed or a short circuit will result. What causes this short to occur - from where to where?[/i]" That gets me to outlets. Your system will be fine on these where they are not connected elsewhere in the layout. If they are connected elsewhere and that

The next potential problem for DCC is that half the outlet positions are at reversed polarity to the inlet. This is due to the way the connections are made to the bridge under the turntable and you can look up Brian Lambert for an explanation The Square Hole part is the one you would need for a Hand Operated version of theTurntable (Hand Operated versions have not been made for many years now...) IF, I wire one rail to + and one to - then surly when I turn the table by 180 degrees, I will get a direct short. Yes?" There was a kit, Turntable Motorising Unit, R.411, which was used to motorise the R.410 Hand-Operated Turntable...If you do not put the Water Crane in position, there is nothing to stop the Square Hole pinion being used with an electic motor drive... effectively make a reversing loop, is a short caused or is the loop isolated by the different positions of the rotating rail as it goes from one turnout to the other?[/i]"

I used to produce this 'adaptor', initially as a 'service' to model railwayers, but have found it financially unviable.Kerry, you've now used up your two posts until this time tomorrow. If only you had answered ALL my questions like Q1 & Q4 in the absence of full answers. I shall now have to make some assumptions to fill in the gaps. I am thinking of putting a building over the motor housing....possibly a 'sand house' with a chimney for ventilation...or a Water Tower with vents?