Hi, my speaker on my DCC/Sound Bachmann 2-8-0 has a probem. When ever the bell rings or the whistle blows, the sound stops, then after 4 seconds the sound comes back. Yes, all the other sounds are FINE.[:D] How do I fix this?[?]
I doubt it is the speaker. A speaker should either work, or not.
I think you may have a decoder issue. Maybe try a decoder reset?
Rotor
I tried the reset twice. It didn’t work.[sigh] Any other ideas??
It’s defiantly not a speaker problem. check all the connections maybe one is loose.
Download and read through the SoundTraxx Steam Tsunami Technical Reference Manual from this site. You may not be performing the reset correctly.
http://www.soundtraxx.com/documents/manuals/tsunamisteam_users_guide.pdf
I have been doing the reset correctly. But, thanks to cacole[8D], I’m going to change some CV’s![:D]
Does the engine keep running when this happens, or does it stop?
How about the lights? Do they stay on or go off?
Some sound decoders have a limited number of “voices.” Each “voice” can play one sound, and only one sound, at a time. If you’ve got enough other sounds going on, then blowing the whistle would require turning off another sound while the whistle is on. Once the whistle stops, then the other sound would return. I’m not sure how individual decoders deal with this, though.
It keeps on running. The sound just goes for a few seconds & its back.
That’s very symptomatic of poor electrical contact. I had the same problem with a Kato Snoot Nose diesel unit into which I put a SoundTraxx LC decoder. Kato had changed their pickup scheme to using a long bronze strip down each side of the frame and relying on a very poor friction contact with the truck sideframe on this particular model, and the sound would containually cut out. I soldered wires between the truck sideframes and decoder, totally bypassing Kato’s pickups, and it now runs flawlessly.