That’s a savings for ESU and a convenient update venue for the user.
Tom
The manual I downloaded has only 48 pages. It is from May 2012. I did not see another just for select. I must be missing something here.
Marty,
The Select manual is the 5th link down on the page from the early link. Here’s the link again for convenience:
Tom
Yes that is the one I have.
Oops…Looks like the page numbers I quoted to you earlier were from the V.4 manual. Sorry about that, Marty. [:$]
The lighting effects section in the Select manual is found on pgs.29-32. Sorry for the confusion.
Tom
Any progress yet on those ditch lights, Marty?
Tom
You mentioned earlier that the Lok select is good right out of the box, and I agree. It turns out that the ditch lights as in real life conditions are used for bridge crossings or passenger station approach at least those two are some reasons for using flashing ditch lights. So by sounding the bell the ditch light start flashing! So that solved that! I would like to set the frequency lower a bit though. Watching F40PTs at railway stations, they oscillate at slower freqs. I will review the pages on the manual for that. I am glad I do have the right manual I thought I was seeing things! Thanks for clearing that up.
For CV48, I want to hear more brake squeal , it seems to be muffled in with all the other sounds ,( which would make sense though in prototypical events). Tsunami and BLI locos I have brake squeal is more evident. That could be based on how bad their brakes are on the trucks too!
I set CV48 with the OEM setup (6) and added 128 for break squeal so 134 is what I tried. No change yet. I will experiment further!
Marty
And that’s part of the fun of DCC. You can get into it as little or as much as you want. That’s also smart of you to write down the default as you change CV values. If you don’t like the results it’s easy to change it back.
Marty, have you figured out how slow your locomotive goes at speed step 001? All of my Loksound decoders will do 1sMPH or less. To me - that’s more important than sound.
Tom
I am sort of a fanatic with slow speed as well, but still have to become more educated on the speed tables. 1sMPH meaning 1 step or second?
1s[cale] mile per hour…oozing speed. [:P] I have an older Walthers SW1 switcher with a Lenz (non-sound) decoder that will actually do 1/3sMPH. [:O]
Tom
As it is for me Tom. One question: When your Loksounds are traveling at such a slow speed, do you notice that old buzz (BEMF I assume) from the loco/decoder if you mute the sound?
Yea, a little bit…but it isn’t very loud. Nothing like when you run a DCC locomotive on DC. That’s a very annoying buzz. [xx(]
Tom
Running the auto BEMF tuning will probably kill that. Or fine tuning the drive frequency - the default should be well above the hearing range for most people, but the motor may resonate at an even fraction of that. The default settings are pretty good for most cases, but aren’t perfect for every motor. Some of the other Euro decoders like CT and Lenz Gold have similar adjustments to fine tune the drive for specific types and brands of motors.
–Randy
The buzz I hear is pretty loud…at least I would call it loud. I think I’ve tried the auto tuning and it didn’t change. It seems to be fairly common but I’m sure personal preferences dictate if its a real problem or not. Its a very nice decoder otherwise.
Hey Guys
I just created a little video and posted it on my YouTube channel. Tom wanted to know how slow I could get my loco to run, well I can’t actually know in any measurement, so take a look at the video see what you think.
You Tube/MartyHejhog1
I named it SD40-2 BNSF Swoosh!
Marty,
The link seems to be incomplete, as posted.
FYI: Calculating scale MPH (sMPH) isn’t that complicated. All you need is:
- A predetermined length of track - 3" is quite sufficient for slow speed
- A timing device
- Your DCC locomotive
- Your DCC system set at speed step 001.
Time how long it takes your locomotive to travel from Point A to Point B and calculate the following:
- Distance(ft)/Time(sec) = Rate (ft/sec)
- Convert Rate to mi/hr and multiply by scale
- End result: Rate in sMPH
Example: It takes 15 secs for my locomotive to travel 3" (or 0.25’)
- 0.25’/15 secs = 0.02 ft/sec
- Convert ft/sec to mi/hr and multiply by scale (or, 0.02 divided by 5,280’ x 3,600 sec x 87.1)
- End result: 0.99 sMPH
Tom
Really I have to do math!!! Thanks I will try that. LOL You could not see video ? I will go back and see why.
I found the link, Marty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_hywt0mQaM
Googled “SD40-2 BNSF Swoosh!”.
Do you have your locomotive set to 28 or 128 speed steps? The remaining few seconds of the clip look like you were running more slowly than you were at the beginning of it.
Tom
I just checked my CV 29, it is set according to my DCS51 Zephyr plus to 038 which is 28/128 4 digit address. Which is what was set up.
Marty
I just turned the throttle up until I saw loco start moving. You mentioned run at speed step 1. I never tried that before . How can I do that without jazzing up my CVs for speed. I am looking at my Zephyr manual and checked you tube but nothing specific to running in step 1.