Hi, I know this is probably a foolish question for some but BLI has adjustments for volume for various sounds. But I'm not sure what some are. For example, which is the steam cock sound? Is it the clicking sound? Is there a place I can learn about what each sound is?
Gary
Download JMRI Decoder Pro (free).
If you haven't already done so, you may have to get a USB interface for your DCC system to connect it to a PC/Mac. From there you can create a Roster in JMRI. The general loco type should be listed (ie: Broadway Limited Paragon2 --> Steam). You fill in the rest of the details (owner, loco ID (you create your own ID "system")), road #, etc.
JMRI graphic user interface shows everything in plain english. You make adjustments to CV values for any particular feature from there. Use the manufacturer technical/owners manual to find out what the CV value ranges can be.
gdelmoro ... For example, which is the steam cock sound? Is it the clicking sound? Is there a place I can learn about what each sound is?
... For example, which is the steam cock sound? Is it the clicking sound? Is there a place I can learn about what each sound is?
If you watch a video or two on youtube of steam locomotives getting underway, they emit steam from the bottoms of the cylinders for several revolutions of the drivers. The steam is let out of the cylinders via cylinder cocks...valves that are controlled by the engineer. Those valves prevent the cylinders from making hydraulic rams out of themselves by forcing condensed water up against the closed end of the cylinders. As the loco sits, bits of steam pass by valves and make contact with cooling walls of the cylinders. That water accumulates at the bottoms of the cylinders. About the first thing the engineer does before he dares to move a locomotive that has sat for more than about five minutes is to open the cylinder cocks...even before he reaches for the whistle to whistle off, or to force the reverser into its far forward position.
So, on your Paragon model, as the locomotive first starts to move, you'll hear rhythmic loud hisses, the same sound emitted from the real world cylinder cocks.
I'm not aware of any BLI steamer decoders that have a clicking sound....that sounds like an actual mechanical bind someplace, perhaps a rod making contact with another. Make sure all the screws are tight on their cranks, and you can invert the locomotive and run it via wires and clips onto the tender wheels while watching to see if any of the rods make contact. You do this by placing your eyes directly overhead, applying throttle settings you choose, and then watching the rods and valve rods move near each other. They can be carefully and gentle bent...a little only. They only need to clear one another.
The best way to learn what your decoder tells you are sounds for X, Y, and Z, is to use the buttons on your throttle and listen...and learn. Push F2 for the whistle, for example, or whatever the manual from BLI says F2 should play. Same goes for all the other function buttons, they come mapped to certain F buttons from the factory.
Guess ill plat with the decoder sounds. PS the click or knock sound is occurring with the locomotive not moving and moving.
gdelmoro Guess ill plat with the decoder sounds. PS the click or knock sound is occurring with the locomotive not moving and moving.
Could be the air compressor(s). It should be shutting off as soon as it's built up air pressure.
Ok thanks haven't got to that one yet.