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Humming, Buzzing Loco's on new DCC Prodigy Advance.

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  • From: Juneau AK
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Humming, Buzzing Loco's on new DCC Prodigy Advance.
Posted by scookam on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:07 AM

New layout and new at DCC. Fired this baby up and it works great. However, my two Atlas loco's with factory installed decoders sound scary when I start to throttle them to move. When up to speed the noise seems to stop. These loco's aren't brand new and they have been run some in the past. I messed around with the programing which changed some things, but not this problem. Any advice?

Thank you. 

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Posted by CSX Robert on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:37 AM
That is normal for the Atlas factory installed decoders(at least for the N scale ones, I don't know about the HO scale ones). The only thing you can do about it is replace the decoder with a high frequency "silent drive" decoder. The buzzing is caused by the decoder sending the power to the motor in pulses, and "silent drive" decoders send the pulses at a high enough frequency to be beyond our range of hearing.
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Posted by scookam on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:44 PM

Well that's simple enough. And yes these are n gauge. Just have to turn the tv up louder I reckon. And thank you for the info.

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