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MTH DCC Ready?

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MTH DCC Ready?
Posted by bnsfrailfan24 on Friday, October 1, 2010 12:31 PM

i would like to put tsunami sound in my SD70 ACE. witch tsunami sound board should i use?

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Posted by richg1998 on Friday, October 1, 2010 1:46 PM

You can do a Google search and find out what is used for a Prime mover. Then go to the SoundTraxx site and see what they have. There are sound samples you can listen to and download to your PC.

You can also contact Litchfield Station and ask. Litchfield Station has always worked closely with SoundTraxx. I buy all my DCC stuff from Litchfield. They do answer email.

Rich

 

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Posted by bnsfrailfan24 on Friday, October 1, 2010 11:07 PM

tanks i believe the TSU-1000 should work

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Saturday, October 2, 2010 8:30 AM

BNSFrailfan, what version of MTH loco do you have?  Is it the DCC Ready one as in your title with question mark?  or is it the DCS equipped one?  If it's the later you will have to modify a couple of things to make it work. If it's the DCC ready one you should be good to go with the one David noted. I use the same decoder in mine and it works great.

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Posted by bnsfrailfan24 on Saturday, October 2, 2010 12:42 PM

I have the dcc ready version with the nmra 8 pin plug

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Posted by bnsfrailfan24 on Saturday, October 2, 2010 12:45 PM

i should only need the tsu-1000 and just plug into the 8 pin all the lights and everyhting else seem to b already wired into the stock board

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Sunday, October 3, 2010 9:12 AM

I don't believe the TSU-1000 or any other Tsunami comes with an 8 pin plug.  My understanding is that if you want an 8 pin plug you can buy one from them and solder the wires yourself.

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Sunday, October 3, 2010 9:15 AM

The part number for the 8 pin plug is on page 5 of the installation manaul.

Page 27 of the same manual shows the wire colors for each pin.  It's easy to do.

Link to manual here:

http://www.soundtraxx.com/manuals/tsuinstallation.pdf

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Posted by bnsfrailfan24 on Sunday, October 3, 2010 5:12 PM

yea i kinda left that part out i have the 8 pin adapter and was going to solder the tsu-1000 wires into it and plug it into the 8 pin on the mth board

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