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Heljan Class 23 DCC Sound install


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I have today purchased a Heljan Class 23 with a view to putting sound in it.

I have asked elsewhere, on this site, and privately, and the only offerings at present are on LS4, so I'm almost certainly going for the Howes version.

 

Having managed to remove the body, without too much fuss, in spite of all the warnings by Bromsgrove et al., - can only assume that the latest batch as purchased from Hattons, have been remodelled slightly, and allow easier removal, and no damage to all the "dangly bits".

That said, I did manage to see all 4 windscreen wipers fall off, and cannot find hide nor hair of number 4!

 

My question here is, what do the great and good of RM world think about speakers in this model?

There is prescious little space above the PCB, and it gets taken up by the decoder anyway.

The cab details are glued (?) to the roof, and seem to sit directly on top of the gearbox towers at each end.

So, my thoughts are to use a pair of sugar-cubes, possibly the larger Zimo ones, placed in the tunnels below the PCB, alongside the cardan shafts. I've done this on another Heljan, and it works quite well, thanks to gorilla snot or blu-tack.

 

Any other alternatives?

 

Regards,

Alan.

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Try and get as big a bass reflex speaker in the tanks and make sure its well seated and sealed.  

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Sorry Alan have only just landed on this

 

Did you see this thread?

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/50103-baby-deltic-sound/?p=1338733

 

Loco on layout at

 

- 4mins in

 

Usually gets some favourable comments at shows

 

Cheers

 

Phil

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