Roundhouse 2-6-0 Sound

[sailormatlac]

Hi folks,

I repainted a brand new Roundhouse 2-6-0 in QRL&PCo scheme today. It is the DCC ready version and I'm thinking about putting a Tsunami sound decoder in it (I'm not that much a freak about sound in diesel engine, but I love it when it comes to steamer). I was curious if any of you have gone through this process and if you have suggestion.

I've seen Soundtraxx make a tiny version of their classic TSU-1000, is it worth the extra money? Also, what kinf of speeker. I'm a total newbie at this. The tender frame comes pre-drilled for a speaker. I've seen Harold Minky's tutorial but he used 2 speakers. If possible, I would prefer to keep the original metal-cast underframe. I hate lightweight tenders that derails when doing switching moves.

Last question. How do you remove the cab from the engine... Honestly, I'm puzzled and don't want to break everything appart just to modify the window glazing.

Matt

[Schraddel]

Hi Matt!


This is a Tsunami TSU-750 squeezed into a turtle deck tender.
The chamber for the speaker has to be kept very low in height, so that the decoder can be placed above it.
Under the black tape are a 8-pin connector according NMRA. I have taped it for safety reasons to avoid short circuits.
The 2-pin connector is for the tender back up light.
The TSU-750 has only front light and back light as functions. There are no other light functions as on the TSU-1000.
In some cases this is the only possiblity to use small speakers and small baffle kits to get sound.
An additional speaker may be mounted under the cab roof if you have a high arched roof. But it is necessary to make a individual chamber for the speaker to fit unter the roof exactly.



This is my system of triple-pack 8-pin NMRA connectors.


In the recangular tender casing it was possible to fit a rather big chamber. It will develop more bass and better sound.

Lutz

[sailormatlac]

Hi Schradel,

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I was far from my model railroading concerns recently! Yoru advices will be useful when I'll install a sound decoder into my new project:

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt111..._2420b.jpg

Yoru idea about a second speaker in the cab looks interesting. As you can see, my 0-6-0 project use a cab with a high arched roof just as you described. You talk about a chamber, what do you mean exactly?

Matt