Post by Some Brat on Jan 19, 2007 9:49:23 GMT -5
I put a small scale railways sound card in the tender of my Bachmann Annie with the Aristo TE and batteries. I got the "Huckleberry" sounds and the 1w amplifier.
The module fit neatly along the back of the tender with the volume knob under the water hatch.
I mounted a 2inch speaker on the floor because the space for the original speaker is taken up by my TE. It won't work with the original Bachmann 4ohm speaker, but you could easily mount an 8ohm speaker in its place.
It comes with an optical sensor and the mfr suggested I use that instead of the Bachmann contacts in the loco. It was wired to the board with a huge stiff 4 conductor phone wire, so I cut it loose and mounted it on the truck, then used wires from an old mouse cord to wire it 'cause they're very flexible.
I run the Aristo Trackside TE from 2 9.6v R/C Car packs, so I wired it to run from one of them. The mfr says it'll vaprorize at 16v and suggests 9v. Maybe I should wire in a diode so it'll be 8.9v, but he says it should be happy at 9.6.
It senses motion with the optical pickup and decides what sort of sound to make and blows the whistle or rings the bell randomly. You can put a reed switch to trigger the whistle. When still, it hisses and pumps the brakes. It whistles when you start and rings the bell when you're moving slowly. I'm told it has different whistles, bells and even squeaks when you slow down and speed up, but since my current "layout" is only 9ft long, I haven't heard them.
Rigged this way, it chuffs almost twice per rev of the drivers. About 200 degrees 'stead of 180. I might put another stripe on the axel so it chuffs more often and triggers its "fast" features at lower speed since I like to run SLOW. It wouldn't be hard to wire it to the bachmann contacts in the loco, or even to mount the optical sensor up in the loco for better synch. Given my intended use, the fact that the chuffs aren't completely synched won't be a problem. Anybody looking that close gets fish slapped Monty Python style. (What'd I do with that gif?)
The 1w amplifier makes LOTS of sound. When I first turned it on, I had the knob turned the wrong way. "What'd ya say?"
The module fit neatly along the back of the tender with the volume knob under the water hatch.
I mounted a 2inch speaker on the floor because the space for the original speaker is taken up by my TE. It won't work with the original Bachmann 4ohm speaker, but you could easily mount an 8ohm speaker in its place.
It comes with an optical sensor and the mfr suggested I use that instead of the Bachmann contacts in the loco. It was wired to the board with a huge stiff 4 conductor phone wire, so I cut it loose and mounted it on the truck, then used wires from an old mouse cord to wire it 'cause they're very flexible.
I run the Aristo Trackside TE from 2 9.6v R/C Car packs, so I wired it to run from one of them. The mfr says it'll vaprorize at 16v and suggests 9v. Maybe I should wire in a diode so it'll be 8.9v, but he says it should be happy at 9.6.
It senses motion with the optical pickup and decides what sort of sound to make and blows the whistle or rings the bell randomly. You can put a reed switch to trigger the whistle. When still, it hisses and pumps the brakes. It whistles when you start and rings the bell when you're moving slowly. I'm told it has different whistles, bells and even squeaks when you slow down and speed up, but since my current "layout" is only 9ft long, I haven't heard them.
Rigged this way, it chuffs almost twice per rev of the drivers. About 200 degrees 'stead of 180. I might put another stripe on the axel so it chuffs more often and triggers its "fast" features at lower speed since I like to run SLOW. It wouldn't be hard to wire it to the bachmann contacts in the loco, or even to mount the optical sensor up in the loco for better synch. Given my intended use, the fact that the chuffs aren't completely synched won't be a problem. Anybody looking that close gets fish slapped Monty Python style. (What'd I do with that gif?)
The 1w amplifier makes LOTS of sound. When I first turned it on, I had the knob turned the wrong way. "What'd ya say?"