I was just wondering if the athearn genises sd70ace with sound can work on dc. I don’t know if if comes with the dual decoder so i can run sound on dc. Any comments or help would be greatly appreciated Thank you, tom
You’ll likely get more help on the Electronics and DCC forum. To my knowledge all modern DCC equipped locos come with dual-mode decoders. My knowledge of these is out of date but it should work on DC. You’ll have to crank it up fairly high to get the loco moving.
Athearn is now using Tsunami sound, so you’ll get the motor sound and no more unless you have some type of special controller for the horn and bell.
You can get automated motor sounds, the bell will sound if the loco is under a certain speed, and the horn will blow if you toggle the direction switch. Atleast, that’s what I’ve heard.
thanks for the insight into this problem of mine.
tom,