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Post of the Year !!!! [Veranda videos] LOL

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Post of the Year !!!! [Veranda videos] LOL
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 3:45 PM
Hello All,

Finally I dood it [:D]
I know many of you were waiting for those videos...please pardon the quality of the sound, imagine it is much better than what you are going to hear.
These videos are in wmv format, please update your codecs if you cant watch them.
Let me know if it doesnt work.

Clickable images

TURBINE START UP



TURBINE SHUT DOWN



JUST FOR FUN[8D]




Enjoy !


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Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:28 PM
Wow!! that was really cool. It took a while to load each one, but it was worth it. Can I ask what you used for the sound? Was it a decoder or what?

Noah
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Posted by brothaslide on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 4:43 PM
Boy - If it had wings, I thought it would take off!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 5:39 PM
Noah,

The sound is included in the Lionel Veranda. (Built-in DCC decoder equipped with QSI Quantum Sound.)
You can hear the sound either on DC or DCC.
The videos are on DC, I couldnt wait to test it myself so I bought a simple DC transfomer, the problem is that it had no direction switch !
I found a not very orthodoxe solution : I plugged bewteen the transformer and the track an electronic speed controler used in RC stuff !! I can set the voltage on the transformer and then, with a radio and a receiver I command the ESC to change the direction (it commands the horn, bells, and many other things like the programming).

No problem with the transformers you can find in USA.....unfortunatly, no way to find that in Paris today, except on order......I am an impatient guy [:D]

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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 7:05 AM
Wuf!! Wuf! [:D]

That was impressive! [{(-_-)}][tup][{(-_-)}][tup][:D][8D][4:-)][tup]

To top it off, it has my favorite horn, the WABCO E2 "honker"!Thanks for the video clips! I think once someone tries a locomotive equipped with a quality sound system, they're going to want more! [;)][:D][:)][:p][;)][8)]

"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"

 


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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 12:29 PM
hm...wow!

I'll take it[oX)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 1:42 PM
Another video I recorded and edited.
It is just for fun and wont show new things. Be informed it is 3.5Mo in wmv format and works by streaming.

Please let me know if you prefer the sound of this movie or the others above



(For the first video clips I used my digital camera, a Canon Ixus400 and for this one, a digital video recorder Canon MV4i.)

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