I ask this question of the speaker size in the tender for the one I own I have not taken off the tender shell yet to see and at the moment would not care too. ( maybe later? ).
Since there are more than one size speaker tsunami installs in the Bachmann steam engines I would like to tune the sounds a little finer using “Tsunami equalizer” as can be done according to a couple of pages from this “Tsunami users guide” below. But I don’t want to harm a speaker by pushing too many decibels through it.[:O]
[#oops][:$] Embarrassed I am David and I apologize for this thread. Lately I’m jumping to conclusions without thinking properly. You are right for my Tsunami is stripped down and I knew that for it has been posted time and time again about Bachmann factory installed Tsunami decoders.
Guess I’d better stick to the Tsunami sounds I already have for I don’t believe it would be worth it to strip out the default Tsunami and buy a TSU 1000 for $119.00 USD
I love sound on my engines and I do remember watching the C&O steamers just about 200 yards from my Grandparents farmhouse ( farmhouse on a hill at least 100 feet above the C&O tracks ) in Lake county Indiana. That particular stretch of rail in our view at farmhouse was a start of a 1 1/2% grade and the start of a very large curve which would continue for the next 2 1/2 miles to Beatrice, Indiana ( small milk and passenger stop ) then level off. I remember watching the big puffs of black smoke from the stack as the engine started the hill.
This was all in the early 1940’s through 1952, so this 2-6-6-2 with sound I have really brings back the memories. [:)]
Edit: I did pull the tender shell off the 2-6-6-2 and the speaker measures 1 & 1/8 inch in diameter as close as I could measure.
You could pull the factory equipped decoder and sell it on ebay, maybe for a good price. It will give the Ranters here, some fodder for another ebay post. [:)]
I would leave it as is.
I just received a Spectrum 4-6-0 with factory Tsunami and I run it with a Spectrum 4-6-0 I put a Micro Tsunami into. Not a big deal as I am not a rivet counter. Ok, I just do not count all the rivets.
Many HO locos use a 1.1 inch speaker.
Don’t forget to read over the SoundTraxx site. There is loads of good DCC info.
If you ever get a Athearn loco with Tsunami, the last I knew, those do not have all the same CV’s.
Bowser/Stewart locos with the Tsunami have all the same CV’s and are the same TSU that we buy.