04-11-2012, 04:12 PM
Steve, sorry for not replying earlier, but I just found your post.
I bought my MP15 used and it came without the weight above the front truck, so that I could put the decoder there. If you don’t want to remove the weight, you could remove the PC board and hardwire the decoder so that it would fit easily above the motor. No hacking of plastic involved. To use the 23 mm speaker that comes with the LokSound decoder, I milled the frame so that it would fit into the tank. Even if it is not difficult to install a LokSound decoder, I don’t recommend it for this engine, because I don’t like the sound of the ESU 645 soundfile. I would use a Tsumami instead.
![[Image: speaker.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/speaker.jpg)
I bought my MP15 used and it came without the weight above the front truck, so that I could put the decoder there. If you don’t want to remove the weight, you could remove the PC board and hardwire the decoder so that it would fit easily above the motor. No hacking of plastic involved. To use the 23 mm speaker that comes with the LokSound decoder, I milled the frame so that it would fit into the tank. Even if it is not difficult to install a LokSound decoder, I don’t recommend it for this engine, because I don’t like the sound of the ESU 645 soundfile. I would use a Tsumami instead.
Kurt