Turntable power supply - Thorens TD150 MkII

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following on from this thread: http://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,6011.0.html

I have two Thorens TD150's that I want to do something with...

The one I wanna just do a basic type thing...

  • New plinth - vanilla - following the same dimensions & basic look as the original
  • service (usual suspects like new belts and cleaning and oiling) & spring adjustment
  • New power cable
  • New cable/Rca plugs...
  • A new dustcover or restoration of the current dustcover

Now the other I wanna do a whole hog type thing...

  • CLD hybrid type plinth...
  • service (usual suspects like new belts and cleaning and oiling) & spring adjustment/modification
  • New power cable
  • New cable/Rca plugs...
  • New dustcover
  • extenal power supply
  • modern tonearm

This brings me to the question I pose in this thread.

I seem to be reading conflicting reports on external power supplies... Particularly the hercules/mose one...

This site: http://www.stamfordaudio.co.uk/pages/1102.htm seems to say that you can use the Hercules II Power Supply with the Thorens TD150...

yet when I visit this guys page http://cgi.ebay.com/MOSE-Hercules-acclaimed-External-PSU-Linn-LP12-/320583714789?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa44747e5

He says the following:
If someone tell you the same PSU can be apply to LP12 and Thorens turntable, it is lie or has no knowledge in AC motors. They are different in poles.

From what I can gleam, the Thorens has a 16 pole motor and the Linn has a 24 pole motor... Subsequently a Linn power supply with a Thorens motor will result in the Thorens motor not having enough torque to start up....

I am pretty clueless regarding these things...

Another potential problem that I am trying to wrap my head around is where the diameter of your pulley of the pulley comes into this... My (perhaps flawed) logic says to me that it will only work if the the motor pulley and the inner platter of the Thorens td150 and the Linn LP12 were exactly the same??? Does that sound right...

Does anyone have some useful insights for me?  :)
 
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