Well I don't have a turntable now, but from what I remember it should revolve indefinately in either direction. (stopping at each track). The motor is incredibly noisy and does produce that old analogue smell.
regards

It will work in either direction indefinitely. It has a standard marklin SFCM (small flat commutator motor) which with a good clean, light oil, new brushes, checked for mechanical wear etc should perform OK. It is noisy though. You may want to consider some sort of sound isolation from the layout board it's mounted on.

Mine is very loud also. Actually I have several and they all are. This whole question of noise is very interesting. Railroads are very loud. C Track vs. M track is very quiet. What do we really want? Everybody seems to talk about "prototypical" but seems to want quiet railroads.
Eric

Hi Dick,

You do not seem to be the only one getting problems. See discussions and solutions under :

https://www.marklin-user...ault.aspx?g=posts&t=5162

https://www.marklin-user...ault.aspx?g=posts&t=7016

in former discussions.

The design should allow a continuous (eternal) turning in either directions. Clean contacts are one cause, but I had serious troule with the motor itself (underpowered !).

Still have to replace it, tough.

Good luck,

Bob

Further study of the operation of the TT Unit that I have seems to indicate that when the control button is pushed, it has to be held down for far longer than if one was energizing a turnout. At the press of the button, power is applied to the solenoid and motor simultaneously. The solenoid has to disengage the indexing key at the perimeter of the TTand also to move the stop that will allow the motor to turn. It does this through a series of linked levers. The action is very loose and sloppy as well as slugish in my opinion. Much more force is required of the solenoid than what is needed to move a turnout's points. It appears that the designers deliberately left these linkages sloppy to save costs not to enhance performance. I have a hunch that the problems reported with decoder usage is that the initiating pulse output from the decoder is not long enough.

From what I have seen, the situation that I have observed can not readily be remedied. I am using a single Markin Transformer output at the 17 VAC terminal and nothing else is connected. It is one of the 10 VA units from an older starter set. It should be more than enough to operate the TT reliably.

By the way the single ground terminal on the TT is common with the outer track. One of our responders was not sure.

Thanks for the help from all of the posters re: this subject. Further comments are welcome! Dick

Well, hopefully a 7186 will not blow up in your face [V]!

That's the only time where a teller will produce noise, a very loud one, BTW.

Luis