LGB Sound Upgrade

Garden Railroading
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I am in the process of upgrading my LGB digital starter set (72255) with sound. The steam loco was easy. I added a tender (69572) which works great once you synchronize all the speed steps so the tender and loco are not fighting each other. For the diesel I am looking at the LGB digital sound add-on unit (65002). The problem is fitting it into the loco. Based on LGBs published dimensions it won’t fit unless I remove the engineer and put the uniit in the cab. Another option is to cut off the engineer’s head and glue it on top of the sound unit but I’m not wild about that idea (neither is the engineer!).

Does anyone on the forum have one of these units and if so can you tell me if the unit can be disassembled easily so I can separate the speaker from the electronics. That would solve the problem which is really a lack of available space the size and shape of the complete unit.

Any other suggestions for adding MTS-controllable sound to this diesel loco?

Thanks for any help.

Peter

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I have the diesel version and I took it out of the case so I could solder the reed switches i have as I did not have the special LGB connector. Eventually I added the capacitor pack.

Cost now exceeds what I could have paid for a Sierra and if I had to do it all over, I would go with the Sierra if they have the correct sound , or bite the bullet and go with the pheonix as it can be reprogrammed to any sound they have.

The unit is much smaller without the case., and I do believe the speaker can be separated.

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Thanks for the info.
I don’t believe I need the capacitor with MTS as the track voltage is constant. The LGB electronics are comprehensive with 8 functions plus some programmability. I’m not brave enough to venture off the LGB path yet!

Peter