Warwick

I hope someone out there can solve my problem. I have installed the turntable with the exit rails going to a 6 door engine shed, there is no room to move the shed or where the entry rail enters the turntable. With the setup of the split rings, as per the instructions two of my exit rails fall into the area of no power to the turntable. I have rotated the split rings so that there is power to turntable at all rail positions, is this wrong? The issue is that the train moves forward to the turntable, starts to enter the turntable and stops. I can push the train onto the turntable and it moves forward. I rotate the turntable to the exit rail and again it starts to cross off the turntable and stops, again i can push the train off the turntable and the train will continue to move forward. WHY? My layout is DCC and the gaps in the rails and turntable are as the instructions. Perhaps it may be better to hardwire the turntable rails to a cross over unit and then to the input rail. Any help would appreciated. Warwick Laken

Thank you Robin, I will experiment now with the info you sent and will get hold of the Pololu DRV8825. Thanks Again warwick

Hello, I am new to the use of Arduino's and having quite a bit of a headache. I want to simply control my 00 gauge turntable. I bought a Nema 17 stepper motor and a Dual H Bridge L298N Stepper Motor Driver Controller. I used a sketch for a small stepper motor with shield (28BYJ-48 Stepper Motor) A sketch worked with this stepper motor but not with the Nena 17. I have used the example sketch in the IDE sketches but the stepper gets very hot when stopped. I only want to make the turntable go clockwise and anticlockwise and stop at my track on a turntable. I haven't found a simple sketch to do this, later I would like to programme stopping points Can anyone help, I am useless at sketch writing and learning is not coming easily to me.