I'm waiting on some parts to come in to continue the build (trying to weasel some tiny capacitors in there). In the mean time I've been putting sound in some F Units, a couple of PA1's and some SD70ACe's.
Geez, and they said it couldn't be done. What a great job. I gotta give this a try. I'm using a DSX or a Loksound as a DSX in a trailing piece of rolling stock. It's okay but leaves a little to be desired. I'm sure I know the answer to this but you didn't have a chance in hell of doing anything with the TSU-750 Stay-alive capacitor, did you? Now, that's something that might be put in a trailer but I'd use something with more oomph than the 220 uf supplied with the decoder. Anyway, great job and I can hardly wait to see the final edition and report on performance. Thanks for this. ...Tom
My 2-8-0 doesn't have a keep alive capacitor on it. It runs really well considering. Every once in a while it will hit a dead/dirty spot and stop, but it's fairly uncommon. I've noticed it does have to "warm up" or perhaps get the wheels clean after sitting between runs, but after that it's fine. I plan on going back and putting some caps in the 2-8-0 as well, when I get them.
Okay, Car season is over, I've been slowly getting back into the swing of the train stuff. First thing I tackled was finishing this project. Here's a youtube video of it running with the Tsunami TSU-750 Light Logging decoder on my test/programming track I ended up cutting a square hole in the cab where the "vent" is in the roof, I'll add a small cover later to make it look like the vent is in the open position. This allowed me to mount the speaker under the cab and have a sound hole in the roof. I also went back and added two 220uf tantalum capacitors inside the tender. Okay without futher delay here's a short video of it running. ****Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht-4FZY7qjY ****Video Couple of pictures of the modifications from original install.
