I’m new here and wonder if anyone out there could help me with something I know is a simple fix–hopefully. I have a trix Mikado and use the new NCE Power Cab DCC system. All the sounds work except the chuffing, or steam chugging, sound. The steam whistle, bell, sander, pop valves etc. all work fine but for the life of me I can’t turn on the steam chugging which to me is the most important. My loco runs like a Swiss watch so I don’t want to return it. I am very new to DCC and am embarrassed to admit that all the CV tech stuff bewilders me, but I do follow directions well. Can anyone help me? I simply want to know how to access the chugging or chuffing(whatever they are called) sounds. The NCE Power Cab system is nice but the instructions don’t seem to go very in depth. The Trix instructions are much less helpful.
Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated.
I believe your Trix has a LokSound decoder, so you’ll have to go to the ESU web site and download the instructions from them.
A few sounds are user adjustable without having to resort to the purchase of a LokProgrammer, which is a very expensive piece of hardware that works only with LokSound decoders.
After my disappointing experience with the sound produced by two different LokSound decoders, I’ll use a different brand (Tsunami or QSI) if at all possible.
LokSound decoders are known to have extremely smooth motor control, but their sound files are lacking.
Had this happen to me a couple of times after resetting the Loksound decoder. All the sounds worked - except the chuff.
First thing you want to do (if you haven’t already) is download the latest ESU LokSound User Manual. (Mine is the 4th edition, August 2005.) I printed mine out and placed it in a 3-ring binder. It’s easier to browse through this way and you can write notes in it, if you want.
On pg. 31 of the manual (under “List of all supported CVs”) is Sound mode 1 and Sound mode 2 (CV 57 & CV 58). For whatever reason, after resetting my decoder, these automatically get a value of “0”…but the defaults are “20” and “115”, respectively. [%-)] Anyway, plug these values in the appropriate CVs and your chuff should return.