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One of the really good things about iTrain is the ability to switch all sounds off in a layout with a single action or button. 
 

when helping people with their layouts this is often the first thing I need to use due to the cacophony of disembodied poor quality sound that are generally too loud is most distracting.

I have posted the TCS statement made after the events here previously.

For signalling, especially when controlled by iTrain is very well served by the YD8016 - again from DCC Train Automation linked above 

There are various utilities around that let you decompose a sound project to extract the files into wav or mp3 file. There are also utilities around that key you play these as if they were on a decoder, but from your PC. There is also hardware that will let you address the sound from you command station and play through ‘proper speakers,.

Google can be your friend 😀

The most cost effective solution are YD6016 which you can get from DCC Train Automation. Give James a call and he will be happy to advise and sell you the correct items 😊

The pre-ordered YD9401 in the UK will hopefully be sent out next week 😉

This is an M1P which seems to have the wires in the same place - though coming out the other end.

M1P-3.5" | TrainControlSystems (tcsdcc.com)

Keith,

I picked up a loco with a TCS decoder and TCS identified the decoder from CV. I also found a page buried in their website that should the value by decoder type. Sorry I can point you at the right link (I may find it later) but at least you know that the info is out there - just hard to find!

1 hour ago, Phil Bullock said:

You are right! No seperate point decoders, integral to the motor and on the cobalt Digital the frog feed is from the same feed as the motor itself which will be the accessory bus. 

You don't need to use the IP digital 'frog feed'.

Use the SPDT switch that is available in the IP Digital with one pole fed from each side of the track (or track bus, I take it from the track at the turnout) and use the common to feed the frog.

Join MERG and buy a pile of their DCO units, easy to build and very effective, this way you can split it up into lots of power districts - it is mostly the track that will need several districts

1 minute ago, Tinsley no.3 said:

I can confirm the decoder and speaker are the same as they left Hornby in 2010.

Which, as I said earlier is perfectly acceptable giving you 16-16.5v DCC at the track.

That is a bit higher than the official 10725, but within acceptable limits. This will provide around 16-16.5v DCC at the track and that will not harm any modern decoders (I actually use 17v DCC).

However if you want to reduce the track voltage the official Roco power supply was 15v @ 4A

I therefore think your issue resides elsewhere and not with the Multimaus amplifier.

is the decoder spec’s correctly for the loco? It may not be large enough current wise

Are you using the 10764 with the Roco power supply and connected as shown here?

if you are then track voltage shouldn’t be an issue.

the default Roco voltage is now 18v which will not cause issues for modern decoders . I assume that they used the same default voltage when this was made. 

I cannot remember is the track voltage is adjustable on these controllers - perhaps it is too high?

Dare I suggest that after the initial amazement at all the sound functions available on many decoders, that the reality of use is reduced to just the sound of the engine working and the whistle/horn?

Is your track voltage high enough to allow it to work?

1 minute ago, RobAllen said:

To configure JMRI, program locos and setup accessories, etc. it's easy enough to connect my computer to the WiFi network that it creates and VNC into the Pi to get at JMRI. 

I wonder if you mean DecoderPro which is a very useful part of JMRI?

Problem with hairspray is that it doesn't hold the grass for very long - after a few months the grass will be gone

9 minutes ago, scottrains29 said:

Simon K mentioned in a video last year that the system would allow for loco detection and full automation,

Hornby have been saying this for at least 10 years, actually probably ever since they introduced Railmaster and nothing has ever appeared.

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

I don’t want a tethered handset of any type but I have no idea how responsive the WlanMaus is with its rotary knob. Or even whether it’s a potentiometer or encoder one. It looks like it’s centre off so most probably the former. 

Locos respond instantly to a change of the rotary position and I suggest that is an encoder, not a potentiometer, because you re-zero the centre position from within the menu structure.  The centre position also has a physical click so you know when it is at zero.

1 hour ago, Crosland said:

 

So what doe the Radio on and radio status indicate?

Good question because they show a cord with the hand controller and sell the cord as a separate replacement item 

Having played with the Kinesis last year they will need to have made a huge number of changes to make into a useable system - it felt like a 1980 remote controller for a video recorder in my hand and the buttons were just as confusing. Unfortunately I was not alone in my view of the product which was not seen to be the in slightest 'ground breaking', or revolutionary.

The YD9401 is actually an ESP32 at its core which when assembled with other components onto a custom board it fits into the DR5000 as an enhancement to the original Digikeijs product, providing some of the benefits to the DR5000 that will be available in the YAMORC command station.

Just now, spamcan61 said:

... attach ...

That's the problem 😉

1 minute ago, spamcan61 said:

A knob is included ;-)

 

https://www.glrailways.co.uk/ace-3-dcc-controller-v10-release-model-1820-p.asp

Just one knob and that is with a cord which means it doesn't really meet the original requirement for two knobs  or mobility either 🤣