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Bachmann GE 44 with Sound

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Bachmann GE 44 with Sound
Posted by Blaine's Trains on Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:57 PM

Has anyone succeeded at putting a decoder with sound in the Bachmann GE 44? With decoders for N & Z scale so small, I would think that a sound decoder might fit in the '44.

I am a novice at this, and am trying to plan for the future of my layout and rolling stock.

 

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Posted by cacole on Friday, May 9, 2008 7:25 AM
The decoder will fit, but where are you going to put the speaker? 
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Posted by Apennsyrrfan on Friday, May 9, 2008 4:48 PM
 davidmbedard wrote:

Its a press fit to the top of the cab roof.  I just installed one.  Not a big deal at all....

David B

David -

 Any pictures available of that install?  Which speaker did you use, and what sounds?

 TIA,

Paul 

 

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Posted by markalan on Friday, May 9, 2008 5:08 PM

David,

Could you provide more detail regarding the baffle you used or point me to another thread?  I understand the concept, I'm less sure of the exact execution.  I'm using this decoder right now in my project on an S3

Thanks,

Mark 

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Posted by joe-daddy on Friday, May 9, 2008 8:52 PM

http://www.westportterminal.de/video/Kadee_magnet.wmv

 

Wolfgang Dudler published a great and highly detailed article on this in Scale Rails a few months back. Scale Rails is a great reason to belong to the NMRA.  The speaker was mounted, as  I recall under the motor, he removed the weight to make room.

 

http://www.westportterminal.de 

 

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Posted by dragenrider on Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:18 PM

This topic came up a little while back.  It had some interesting links and input. 

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1422083/ShowPost.aspx 

To my knowledge Wolfgang is the first to pull this off. 

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