Hi guys,
I’ve been online and bought 2 tenders with sounds. The first had rail sounds and I couldn’t be more pleased with it. the second arrived today, it has “train sounds”.
Now I can make it work & I won’t debate the sound quality issues. My problem is that the tender seems to take time to warm up. When I run the train I get the “chooshing sound” but that is all, no whistle or bell.
I left the tender on an energized track for a while, I got the crew conversations, and a few minutes later the whistle and bell begin on their own (I had pushed buttons earlier of course). It’s as if the transformer commands had been buffered in some memory and activated later.
At this point the sounds will work on command as long as the power remains on and car unmoving.
Is this normal ? This seems rather unreliable to me.