Wiring Diagram For Hornby Turntable

This type is easy to convert to dcc by using a mobile decoder and wiring it so that the turntable motor is driven by the decoder s locomotive motor outputs.

Wiring diagram for hornby turntable. Look at the hornby website for instruction. I have coloured two of the wires to help illustrate where they go. Dave farmer 19 357 views. The brown and black wire that come from the turntable can be swapped with each other.

The atlas and hornby ones use a type of geneva drive that makes them pause at set indexing points. A seemingly simple task but things are not always what they seem. Cut the plug off of the r8249 locomotive decoder and strip the red black orange and grey wires ready for soldering. Paul probably the one of the best helps is larry puckett s book wiring your model railroad.

Fitting a dcc decoder to a hornby turntable and then installing it on to my layout. Then you can control it with any dcc throttle as if it were a locomotive. Peco pl 13 accessory switches fit directly onto hornby point motors without modification and can be used for frog switching on live frog points such as peco electrofrogs points operated signalling to provide feedback for automatic control or just to indicate on a control panel that the point has. Model railway electrics hornby turntable circuit diagram wiring diagram oct 16 how to manually wire one of these chips into an old train.

4 responses to how to wire a turntable. Outdated point motors and wiring for the layout. Basic point wiring diagram with hornby r044 passing contact switch. Probably talking 80 trains here.

The green link wire is included with the turntable as is the extra power clip. Covers hornby peco and seep point motors. Also includes operation options. Solder the orange wire from the decoder to the brown wire from the turntable and wrap the join with insulating tape.

Please subscribe for more videos and thank. Click on this link to see the turntable in operation video 1 42mb below is a copy of the hornby electric turntable circuit diagram click on the picture to enlarge. Wiring the hornby turntable as the supplied hornby instructions are a little confusing we have a single sheet wiring diagram that will ensure your turntable will work faultlessly every time. Plenty of tips to improve operation first time every time.

Hornby s guides work only with locos that are dcc ready ie have. Maybe there is a wiring diagram out there. Cut the plugs off both the brown and black wires that protrude from the base of the turntable and strip them ready for soldering.