Bill, Do you have the Tsunami configured for articulated sounds? if so besides your 2 cam chuffs you might also be getting additional chuffs generated by the Tsunami. Just something to check. The Whistle on the EM-1 should sound something like a Steam Boat!!!! Ed Sauers
--- On Sat, 7/2/11, Bill Lane <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill Lane <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} EM1 & Tsunami To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 2, 2011, 5:13 PM All, My EM1 was the first loco I have that got converted to DCC. I has a bit intimidated at the time with DCC and taking apart my EM1 so someone else did it for me. In spite of being emphatic that I wanted everything including the speaker in the boiler it came back to me with the speaker in the tender. Also the chuff rate was going to some other imaginary loco’s speed but not my matched to my EM1. I loved running it but hated the sound. About 8 months ago I decided to tear into it and install a heavy Tsunami and deep bass speaker. I also want to use the sound cams. About a day and a half later I was done. I tried to run it on my little loop I had at the time. It came up with some sporadic shorts on a day I did not have the time or especially the patience to diagnose the problem. Since I was concerned with this S bend I am putting is as a part of my freight bypass I wanted to test the curvature shape on my 2 “big engines” the PRR J1 and EM1. I took the piece of track and clipped it up to my PowerCab. I did not sense any issues with the J1. I now had to dive into the shorts of the EM1. For some strange reason the shorts did not fix themselves just sitting in the box for 8 months. But I was hopeful. As it turned out those pesky “detail” wires got into places they should not have causing an electrical fracas. After about 45 minutes of poking around I am now calling it fixed - luckily without having to take it apart again. Here is a pretty chunky photo of my wiper set up. http://www.lanestrains.com/EM1_Wipers.jpg Note you can adjust the engagement of the wipers with it upside down and running. They are ½ round brass bars soldered to some .032 phosphor bronze wire. All the pressure you need is to just touch the high spots of the cams. Too much pressure is tons worse than not enough. Now that I have run it a bit with both cams functioning I am not sure I like the sound. At anything past a crack of the throttle the chuff beats quickly blend into a solid sound. An easy fix is to just disconnect the jumper wire to the front cam but that will return the sound to 4 beats per revolution. I will leave it as is for now. The EM1 goes around the S bend almost without any overhang so I know the turns are gradual. One this is for sure though. The Tsunami and deep bass speaker are head and shoulders above the old DSD and whatever speaker was in it. Next up (at some point) is the same conversion for the J1. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
