Some shop sell a Kato HO Scale "KOBO" GE C44-9W Locomotive - Union Pacific #9581 - With Factory DCC & LokSound Decoder...Is it true? what decoder has? is factory fit? Thanks.
A speaker in the fuel tank can be a problem. It will pick up any and all metal debris on your track and sometimes will make the speaker inoperative. If you get a DC version and install sound, the fuel tank is the place to install the speaker. You might just as well use what is made into the loco. You just need to cover the grill area with some fine cloth or brass screen. That and keep you track work clean.
A speaker in the fuel tank can be a problem. It will pick up any and all metal debris on your track and sometimes will make the speaker inoperative.
If you get a DC version and install sound, the fuel tank is the place to install the speaker. You might just as well use what is made into the loco.
You just need to cover the grill area with some fine cloth or brass screen. That and keep you track work clean.
The Kato KOBO ES 4400AC model I boughjt had a Digitrax Sound FX decoder, which was soon replaced with a QSI because the sounds were not right and volume was too weak.
Kato must have switched to LokSound decoders after they made that one.
Cacole, I´ve that engine made by Tower55, and I don´t like the Digitrax sound. Which decoder do you suggest as to change? Thanks.
Harley-Davidson,
I replaced the Tower55 decoders with QSI Revolution U types and the sound is much better.
I made a mistake about the Kato KOBO model in my previous post -- it's a GP40 or 50, (I really can't tell one diesel from another) not an ES 4400AC.