Description
DCC Sound Trains Decoder for the GWR Prairie 45XX Class
GWR Prairie 45XX Class Wikipedia background information
All sounds are in fine 16-bit quality without artifacts or background noise. The whistles have a nice and subtle echo that slowly fades out.
Furthermore, our projects offer features such as
- quick response to controller commands
- vacuum brake
- coasting mode
- volume setting by F-key
- brake short whistle
- F key manual Ejector control.
- The GWR fitted two different whistles on many of their locomotives, a "brake" or "shunt" whistle that had a low tone, and a "main" or "service" whistle that had a higher pitch and was used most of the time. -- The Manor project has these two whistles, but also some variations of them that you can select via different CVs if you would like to change them.
-The "main" or "service" whistle is on F2 (long or variable), F3 (short) and F14 (echo). Both F2 and F14 have different versions that again are selectable using a CV. CV162 controls which version is used on F2, --- -and is set to 0 by default, but if you program CV162 to a value of 1, it will now play a fixed length clip each time the function key is pressed. There are 3 different clips that will be randomly played for each time --the function is pressed.
Also you can activate a shunting mode. It offers different acceleration values and individual max speed. All values are adjustable by CVs.
Not to mention the project contains
- curve squeal
- coach doors slamming
- brake valves
- water fill sound.
Operation – Loksound5 Locoman Sounds GWR 4575 Small Prairie
To operate your locomotive, on a DCC layout your locomotive comes with the loco address set to the default short address #3. To run your locomotive, place on the track, select the correct address, set the speed and your loco will move. To turn on the sound, press F1. You will hear a slight hiss of steam. To turn the sound off, press F1 again and the locomotive will be silent, but still run.
The locomotive has some momentum set to ensure realistic operation and sounds. This momentum allows for the loco to have a slight delay as the brakes release before moving off. The sounds will respond to changes in the throttle, getting louder when you increase the throttle, and going quiet with the sounds of rod clank when decelerating.
There is detailed further information on this that can be found on the ESU website under downloads - http://www.esu.eu/en/downloads/instruction-manuals/digital-decoders/
There are random sounds that play when the locomotive is resting such as the injector and coal shovelling. These can be disabled if necessary, please consult the function list below.
NB – DCC sound is not tolerant of dirty track or wheels so make sure to keep your track and wheels clean to get the best of this decoder. If the sound becomes intermittent, you may need to cycle through F8 to get the sound to come back on again, but this is usually a sign of poor pickups, dirty track or dirty wheels.
Besides, coal shovelling is always synchronized with Aux1, even as a random sound. Plus a whole spectrum of authentic sounds adding to your driving pleasure.
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DCC Sound Trains Chips
To begin with we built a strong reputation for multichannel digital recordings. These are exclusive to our projects.
We have new projects in production all year round, will release them as our production pipeline moves forward.
The steam and diesel loco sounds we offer covers a great part of British Railway Heritage. We offer a range of DCC sound chips. Our recording equipment is state of the art. All in all they allow the modeller to enjoy the response from the controller with quality steam and diesel sounds at a great price. So we are developing projects on this platform. These decoders show off our unique hifi British train noises
Default function mapping
The LokSound decoder has been configured with many functions. The full list is shown in the list on the following page, but some of the common ones are
F0: Lights (directional, if fitted)
F1: Sound on/off
F2: GWR main whistle (choice of 3 selectable through changing the value of CV162 to 0, 1 or 2, default is CV162=1 which is a playable whistle.)
F3: GWR shunt whistle (choice of 2 selectable through changing the value of CV161 to 0 or 1 default is CV161=0 which is a playable whistle. The other selection plays a short shunt whistle clip of 1 of 2 different clips played randomly).
F4: Vacuum Brake
F5: Drain cocks
F6: Fancy whistle.
F7: Stationary: doors (on), guards whistle (off) F7: Moving: flange squeal (speed dependent)
F8: Buffer clash
F9: Forced coasting (loco exhaust will shut off and coasting sounds will play).
Remember, you can reset the decoder at any stage by programming a value of 8 into CV 8. To do this, on a DCC system:
- first select the loco to be programmed (if it is straight out of the box, then the loco will have an address of 3, so select loco address 3)
- go to programming on the main (POM)
- Select Program CVs
- Select CV 8 for changing
- Enter a value of 8 into CV8
This will reset the decoder including any changes to loco addresses, volume settings and DC operation.
For further instructions on programming, see the detailed Loksound Select (steam/diesel) manual available at http://www.esu.eu/en/downloads/instruction-manuals/digital-decoders/
Overall volume control is through CV 63. Default setting is CV63=128, Max Volume is CV63=192
Volumes can also be set individually (see table below) after setting CV 31 = 16 and CV32 = 1
