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Hi All, on reviewing some video I shot, I noticed that the circuit board connected the the LEDs on the body, so would power the cab and central high light, would appear to have diodes and a relatively large capacity installed. at the weekend I’m going to check to see if they flicker, compared to the lower LEDs that are connected on the body. Also, when watching some footage of the dummy car with the sound running and the LEDs showing red, if I lifted the bogie off the track that has the pickups on, the sound will play for a couple of seconds, but the LEDs fade out, about half a second, rather that go off. The instructions for the stay alive https://train-o-matic.com/kb-powerpack.html, in the section for Loksound 4 mentions SUSI, I’ve googled it but not sure what that is and if this and the cvs mentioned would have any affect on this behaviour..

Thanks for replying, I am guessing that I could add a bigger capacitor to the circuit and a length of wire to hide it a bit further inside the loco. I may have a look at this a bit later.

Hi All, I have a class 800 with dual sound, using two loksound 4 decoders. I decided to add some stay-Alice’s to both cars, but specifically it was for the dummy, as it has only one set of pickups and it is fairly light so the sound would stop going over points. I purchased two TRAIN-O-MATIC SPP-N stay-alives and fitted them as per the instructions, it mentions also making some CV changes, but I’m not sure what they are or do and the mention SUSI (not sure what what that is either). Sound appears to play when the wheels leave the track, but the lights flicker. This occurs on both units, so not sure why, could this to do with these CVS that I’m meant to change? Thanks Chris

Did you ever work it out? I’m having the same issue at the moment. It is loose, but something is retaining it. cheers chris

i totally agree, there are a lot of manufacturers who have very advanced models, like your models. Chris

Hi Bif, Yep, CV179 sorted it out. Really great sound package you created. Shame the Hornby dummy car only has pickups on one set of bogies. But a small stay-alive will sort that out.. Chris

I had a play with CV4 and CV179 and that reduced both the deceleration and braking, which makes it much more useful on my size layout. Also changed CV3 to make the acceleration, I guess less realistic but again better for my layout size. Thanks Chris

Hi purchased a while ago a Hornby Class 800 which has 2xLok5Sound decoders and has the legomanbiffo sound files. It has the active braking feature and I am wondering how I can adjust this to make the braking simulated force harder. Currently, at full power, if I drop it down from Speed Step 128 to 0, it takes about 2.5 revolutions of my layout to come to a halt, using F5 to activate the break, it drops to 1.5 revolutons. So I was wondering what CVs I need to adjust to make the deceleration (no brakes) a little faster and also the make the braking force harder (decelerates faster). I have access to decoder pro to do any CV tweaks. Thanks Chris

Thanks Nigel and to all that put together such excellent software for us novices to use. I picked up the Bachmann Class 70 at the Hornby Show a few years ago and it was already sound equiped, not sure if that was OEM or aftermarket (need to go to the loft and find the original box) I have a Z21, which I believe can update the Zimo chips, so that is my next port of call, although I don't use that and now use the MERG command station and controllers I'd also like to make all my loco's sounds consistant, especially as I use a normally controller, so having everything similar would be nice also, but thats for another time and another thread! Chris

So I can confirm that F4 activated the uncouple shuffle! But I need to adjust the distance it move backwards F14 does indeed activate the shunt mode, so removes the inertia. Next is to flash the chip with a newer version of the fireware and see if the Functions increase from 20 to 29.

Interestingly, I have a tab called Shunt/Uncouple and it shows the settings that I manually added to CV 115 & 116. What I'm not sure is that it shows a Shunt Function, that I have assigned to F14 for the moment, which, according to my train instructions refers to the sound 'RPM'. So I am assuming that is for the Shunt feature that removes inertia, but what confuses me is the fact it shows the settings for the shuffle Now the Loco also has Lights and Cab Lights, Lights F0 and Cab F8, which I can see on the Alt Function Map Tab, So I can see that Physical Function 1,2 and 3 are used, whcih I think is the max physically Functions for the MX644 Soun chip Under Lights, I am going to choose function FO2 as the Function I also think that the chip is limted to 20 Functions (0-19), so I am going to look at using F4 (has a short toot on that). So if I use the SW Mappings, they will be something like this Fingers crossed! As a matter off completeness I believe my chip has v33.10 installed (CV7=33 & CV65=10) Chris

Cheers

Thanks Nigel, i’ll give that a go tomorrow. Chris

This is a really useful but I am wondering how to get the uncouple shuffle/waltz assigned to F21. looking in the Zimo manual you change CV115 and CV116, but I don’t understand how I assign the uncouple action to the function key. I’m using decoderpro to read the zimo chip and I believe it is a MX644. thanks chris

Hi All, i am am trying to get this to work on a Class 70, which according to CV250 is housing a MX644 zimo sound decoder. i have read through the zimo manual and see the CV 115 & 116 need to change to allow the shuffle. but I cannot work out how to assign a function. Note the I am using DecoderPro to read the entire chip setting. I am also unsure if I have a current sound for uncoupling. Chris