My Other Decoders can be programmed with freeware/java DecoderPro. Platform-independent. Den

Really? They just found the hardware lying in the woods, and decided to pick it up and use it?! I mean, seriously. If other manufacturers can support dimmable lights on all 4-6 function outputs of a $

Yep. That is exactly the case. The EMD's two-stroke diesel requires forced induction to feed the air into the cylinders... hence even the earliest examples had Roots blowers on them. EMD's turbo-super

I've seen a couple of instances of the SOCKET solder joints breaking during the installation of new chips in Atlas Trainmasters. Depending which solder joints broke, it could cause anything up to and

How? I've tried to turn off DC capability via CV29 several times, and the QSI chips merrily continue to run on DC. This is highly annoying to me, because I have DC mode turned OFF in all my other deco

That's an interesting viewpoint. I made the change to DCC (NCE) in November of 2000. Just a shade over seven years ago. On a layout that was "being built" at the time. As for "troubleshooting"... what

Yes. This was the root of my problem. I didn't see until afterwards that the prongs "moved" in the tool. Did I mention that this was the third or fourth install I've done? ;-) It would be nice if the

Okay. I royally screwed up. I was just working on installing an upgrade chip into a friend's Atlas Trainmaster. (Why do people ask ME to do these things?). I'm using the extractor tool... 'cuz I ain't

--- "Jeff Golding" <trains@i...> wrote: I don't think it is. Five years ago, Soundtraxx made individual sound systems for "1st gen EMD, 2nd gen EMD, Alco"... and everyone longed for a GE. They were av

--- "Stephen Barmash" <stevieb@g...> wrote: I never said that the PFM was a good CONTROL SYSTEM (as you seem to have said, DCC is far more flexible from an operations standpoint!)... but the sound sys

--- "Stephen Barmash" <stevieb@g...> wrote: Then you're behind the times! Our modular club here had a PFM sound system as early as 1980 or so... and we had several guys with sounded steamers running a

price is a sound Or, ALL THREE!! The price IS a problem. I can spread my costs by adding a better- sounding Soundtraxx later. But I really think sound is nothing more than a novelty! Den

--- "roadkill_97006" <roadkill_97006@y...> wrote: The thing that really, truly, gripes ME about the whole situation, is that this generic crappy sound system is DOUBLING the cost of today's already-ou

A very nice three-chime horn is in the sound chip... but the prime mover doesn't sound a derned thing like any Alco *I* ever heard... almost indistinguishable from the Atlas Trainmaster. Den

I can't imagine the firebox flicker being directional... I'm thinking either a bad LED, a bad function output, or a loose connection in between. Den

Uh... I don't know of any non-factory-installed QSI decoders... at least not in HO scale. And Atlas certainly has not put a QSI into a GP7. Life-Like recently made a GP9 with sound. If it's "older loo

Ha! I saved money. The ONLY (yep, ONLY!) reason I would have bought a Dash- 8 with sound, would have been the opportunity let it idle, with the occasional "whooooooop! Pluggapluggaplugga" from the air

--- "Brian Moore" <brianm@s...> wrote: My guess would be "impossible in a steamer... because the chuffs are controlled by BEMF into the sound decoder". I see no real reason why it WOULDN'T work on a d

--- "Larry Reynolds" <pennsyrr@r...> wrote: This could be. We had problems early on with first-run Atlas SD35's... their wheels would gather crud more quickly than anything else on the railroad. The p

===== ===== I know this is a Digitrax issue, and not a QSI issue, per se... but... Their above statement was likely logical and true in 1995. But today, it is 2005. When was the last non-advanced deco