Hello,

I tried but the turntable did not react with its commands. Whereas on address N°1 the red and green keys cause the machine to beep. Note: the first time I turned it on it was spinning a bit. Should it be reset? And how ?

Sincerely,
a new AC Marklinist

Duchêne from France

Hi jean,

I am on MS2 as it was indicated on your initial post!!! (and so I don't have CS2 or CS 3; nobody is perfect!)

Merci pour votre réactivité !

Cheers

Yves

I know this video, of course, that I've seen several times but apparently, the 74861_TT is no longer recognized in 225 by the MS2...

My TT was posted to Marklin for repairs on 3rd February 2022 from Sydney, Australia and arrived in Germany on 13th February 2022. It was delivered to Marklin on 16th March 2022. So much for German efficiency. . Now I have to wait for Marklin to lodge it into their system and then for it to be repaired and them posted back to me.

And Marklin sent me an email on 25th March 2022 to say that they have recorded in their books and will be repaired - at some time.


Everyone blames Covid when something goes wrong - BS - it's just people have become lazy and work is optional.

Märklin did present a new turntable with new design.

Beside the fact that it looks weathered compared to the previous version not much can be found yet on it.

The change in # from 74781 to 74782 could mean that it has not changed much. But only speculation for now.

Below is a side by side of the « old » and new description from the catalogue.

The only difference I see is that the track have to be powered individually on the new one « . Locomotive operating current must be supplied separately to the track spoke connections » whereas it was supplied to the track spoke connections by means of the turntable deck in the ‘older » version.

Hi

As you said the darker color (no weathering) looks better. The previous new TT had the same constrain regarding the obligation to power each individual track.
Here is the picture from Julie on the French 3 rails forum https://forum.3rails.fr/u/julaye/summary regarding the underside of this version. Merci Julie, j'espère que tu me pardonne l'emprunt de ta photo.

My cristal ball is not better than anyone but I suspect Märklin has corrected very small details (plastic color). My guess is it is the same program and sound.
The access track may be changing slightly with crossing walkway and different rails.
Cheers
Jean

Hi Greg
I understand your disappointment. I had a similar experience on a non-systematic failure on a loco. With the sound the loco will stop after a while but sending digital orders, the decoder would restart. I sent the loco to Märklin and waited for 3 months to have the loco returned with the exact same problem. I was shocked because it came right of a Mega startpackung 29640 with a CS2 and 2 trains for nearly 2000 USD.

Apparently, Märklin is not good at fixing intermittent problems but they repaired many of my other items (CS2, Henschel Wegmann loco, etc).
Also I know a few people who purchased the 74861 TT who had no problem with it. Exceptions: non-horizontal, non plane installation, fiddling with the lock servo.
Did you tested the TT with another central station? It happened to me a few time I had to unlock a digital / MFX device by changing the CS (in my case CS1, MS1, CS2 or CS3).
Honestly I can't see Märklin (Göppingen Germany) NOT testing your TT, but if it works then they return the TT without doing ANYTHING further. So do try with a friends CS3 or similar.
MFX registration can be a pain in the neck especially if you have many registered locos and the registration can be hidden somewhere. This is where A SECOND MFX central Unit is key because the registration process starts from zero (on the "other CS" and then on yours).
Cheers
Jean

The key weaknesses of the initial design that hopefully they addressed some of in the new version, beyond the cosmetic improvement, which are welcome:

1) The small keys at the exit will catch due to the way the bridge section has hard right angles where the keys pass under the bridge. If they angled those ends, then a slight misalignment would no longer jam the turntable.
2) The table is a bit flexible - installing as steel stiffening ring under it would stabilize and reduce turn table jamming occurrences.

If they fix more than just the cosmetics then an upgrade kit you buy is probably the best you can expect from Märklin. Maybe dealer installed.

Buy an upgrade kit ? You must be joking. Firstly, will Marklin produce the upgrade kit, and secondly, if the upgrade kit is needed to improve the operation of the TT, then Marklin should provide free of charge. This reminds me of Microsoft selling operating systems. DOS 3.3 was great, but to improve and keep up with the new technology, they sold DOS 4 - whoops, it had problems, so they sold DOS 5 which had problems and then DOS 6, until Windows appeared and the process went on. Each time to but the updates. Bill became extremely rich and now the upgrades are free.