arhhh blueline rsd-15 dont work

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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just got my blueline rsd -15 today sounded good, but after 20 minutes the sound dont work anymore. very frustrating as ive been waiting a long while for them to become available. i suppose i got to mail it to bli now. i had a feeling about factory sound .it seems that aftermarket sound is the way to go i guess. maybe soundtraxx for this beast,as the model is excellent and runs very well ,almost as good as my atlas locos.

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Dan,

A few questions for you first:

  • Are you operating in DC or DCC?

  • If DCC, have you tried resetting your decoder to the factory defaults to see if the sound returns?

  • If I read into what you are saying in your last couple of points, the locomotive still runs well but you just don’t have sound anymore?

  • Maybe you can also fill us in a little more about what happened prior to your sound “disappearing” on you. Did the locomotive stop suddenly and then the sound cut out?

We’ll wait to hear more from you.

Tom

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thanks for replying. the first problem i noticed is that in forward the lights took more throttle to light up than in reverse, then i heard a static like sound for a moment then the sound cut out and no longer works.the model still runs just no sound.

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The static and then quiet sounds like a loose wire. If the speaker were compromised, it could still make sounds in some cases, but awful or low ones. The static sounds like it was just about to produce a sound, or a mix of them, but then the wire contact was disrupted once more. Maybe a bad connection to the decoder…you’d have to look inside and maybe test the circuits to see.

Way out of my league…or rather, the other way around. Sorry.

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I just got done programming a BLI C28 dash7 with a blueline sound decoder. Step 1: Since the train ran for awhile with sound, check under the fuel tanks and make sure that the speaker magnet didn’t pick up a stray track nail or rail spike. (A track nail or spike can cut out a speaker in a heartbeat.) If that didn’t work program everything back to address default 03.

To program the blueline sound locomotive, First, pull out the motor decoder that you just installed, then set the locomotive on the programming track and in DIRECT MODE, program the sound decoder to what ever 2 or 4 digit address you want it to be.

Next, remove the light harness and plug it into the other slot that is provided. (this will take the light controls away from the sound decoder and enable the motor decoder to control the lights.)

Now, plug in the motor decoder and set the locomotive on the programming track and program the motor controller to the same locomotive address that you addressed the sound decoder to in OPS or (digitrax) PAGE mode. The locomotive should now run and the sound should work at the same address with F0 controlling the lights.

If you consist it with other locomotives, the sound locomotive has to be the "lead’ or “top” locomotive or the sound won’t work without going in and doing major surgery to the CV’s…chuck

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If you are using DCC:

We have found at the club that not all DCC systems will program this thing. We use CVP. Anyone who buys one of these gives it to a club member that has a digitrax system at home. He programs it, then it runs at the club, however, I have not dared to adjust any CVs in the decoder, so sound is loud and not at the settings I would prefer. I wonder why BLI didn’t just put in a decoder that did it all.

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Maybe the speakers went bad?

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They once did. It was called QSI.

My WAG would be the speaker is kaput.

Contact BLI and send the unit back. At least thier Repair and Customer service is second to none. (Sotto: It has to be…)

Now they took it OUT and nuetered it to cater to the DC market.