BLI Blueline PRR J1

[NSlover92]

Hey ya'll, I finally got my J1 running again after a mis-hap at the club, ok, Now I have it working, but I know that is has two decoders and Sound and a Digitrax I put in it for movement, I have it moving just there is no sound how do I program the sound decoder useing a DT400? (BTW:I dont know all kinds of terms and fancy electronical stuff please use simple terms as possible Thanks) Mike

[pdnkprr]

This is great.

BLI owners manual tells you to reset factory sound chip to defaults by:

Place loco on program track. Press Prog button on DT400 until Pg appears. Turn left throttle knob until  08 appears. Turn right throttle knob until 08 appears. Press ENTER button. Press the EXIT button. Sound chip is reset to address 3. This does work.

I did all that and it reset my BigBoy sound chip and ESU LokPilot V3.0 decoder back to addreess 3 but did not restore the sound. 

FYI, The manual also tells you that long address can be set on the sound chip while leaving the DCC decoder set to 3. This does work and I can set the "boy" to 4017 on the Quantum chip but still have no sound.

There is some sort of bug on the BLI/Quantum stuff when you try to prog your add in DCC chip. No help is available on the BLI site so I guess I'll have to e-mail them.

Walt 

[selector]

When you say no help is to be found on the BLI site, do you mean to include their forum?  There are several stickies right at the top of the first page that deal extensively with just these issues.  Or, pose the question on the forum and see if you get some help.

[locoi1sa]

  Hi NS

 Both my Bluelines wont make a peep until I hit F9 or while they are moveing press the horn button. Another thing with the J is the plug in the back of the cab. Make sure its realy plugged in. Sometimes they apear solid but not realy in all the way. The J has a plug thats hard for me to plug in but the M1 is easy by far.

    Pete
 

[NSlover92]

  Hi NS

 Both my Bluelines wont make a peep until I hit F9 or while they are moveing press the horn button. Another thing with the J is the plug in the back of the cab. Make sure its realy plugged in. Sometimes they apear solid but not realy in all the way. The J has a plug thats hard for me to plug in but the M1 is easy by far.

    Pete
 

I fixed the problem of no sound, but I was told after i programed the loco and reset it that I had to sync the sound decoder with the mobile decoder my question is how to do this, not how to reset it to fix it. Mike 

[locoi1sa]

  NS

 All you realy have to do is address the 2 decoders to the same #. Most people use the locos number.

   Pete
 

[pdnkprr]

  NS

 All you realy have to do is address the 2 decoders to the same #. Most people use the locos number.

   Pete
 

I was directed by BLI to the web page below where I found the procedure to program the factory BLI sound chip to the desired cab address.
Remove the DCC decoder you installed into the BLI product, apply the desired address using the outlined procedure for the system you have, then reinstall your DCC decoder and program it to the SAME address you applied to the BLI sound chip. All should now be well and the sound should sync up correctly.

I followed the required procedure and my Big Boy now runs and sounds beautiful at address 4017. Thanks BLI.

Walt

 http://precisioncraftmodels.com/index.php?p=page&page_id=BlueLineDCCprog&CFID=3399105&CFTOKEN=92511882

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhW01McwbuU

 

[New Haven I-5]

  NS

 All you realy have to do is address the 2 decoders to the same #. Most people use the locos number.

   Pete
 

I was directed by BLI to the web page below where I found the procedure to program the factory BLI sound chip to the desired cab address.
Remove the DCC decoder you installed into the BLI product, apply the desired address using the outlined procedure for the system you have, then reinstall your DCC decoder and program it to the SAME address you applied to the BLI sound chip. All should now be well and the sound should sync up correctly.

I followed the required procedure and my Big Boy now runs and sounds beautiful at address 4017. Thanks BLI.

Walt

 http://precisioncraftmodels.com/index.php?p=page&page_id=BlueLineDCCprog&CFID=3399105&CFTOKEN=92511882

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhW01McwbuU

 

I'll make that link clickable.