Hornby Motorised Turntable demo

I've dug out an old Hornby Turtable and wired it up - and placed a few Western Region Hydraucs around just to give a WR sense... may consider using it for modelling St Blazey, although getting a different kit may make it more realistic. Let me have your thoughts!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• model railway
• OO
• turntable
• Hornby
• trains
• diesel
• hydraulic
• Hymek
• warship
• Western
• electrical
• water-crane

[dandex500]

will it work with DCC or do i need to fit things like the point clips to make the thing live. please help

[JohnPW22]

@dandex500 see Hornby's web page for detailed conversion using a locomotive chip rather thna an accesory decoder here... Search on google for "making hornby turntable dcc" then select the link with the following in hornby-dcc/decoder-installatio­n-guides/turntable-conversion/

[MrJezza31]

how is it wired up to the controller plese reply

[JohnPW22]

@MrJezza31 Thanks for your question. Simply take the two leads and attach them to the terminals of one of the the 12v DC controlled outputs (what would usually go to the track), it doesn't matter which way round, then use the controller to 'drive' the turntable.

[JohnPW22]

@MrJezza31 Does yours have a motor - it needs one... and should have two wires coming from it.

[JohnPW22]

@MrJezza31 Not sure I want to sell it... it kinda gives an authentic feel...! You could get a motor on ebay... there's a few on there.

[bubbachub211]

Thumbs Up if you thnk he sounds like professor snape from harry potter

[MrJezza31]

@JohnPW22 im not sure it does actuelly so could i buy the little water pump off you to operate the turntable

[MrJezza31]

@JohnPW22 no no no wait i dont understand you take the 2 leads from the back of the controlleer yes i get that but nothing else could you do a vidio on how its done plese as ive just bought a seccond hand turntable and i dont know what goes where if you know what i mean and my one isnt controllerble manually because the previous owner has lost the turning water pump thing

[sonicfan666]

i still have this in working order