Jeff Otto did a presentation at our club's annual get-together about a year ago about setting up engines for sound to run slowly and properly. Here's his recommended settings for a Tsunami, I found them usefull in getting mine to work the way I wanted:
CV2 = 1; CV3 = 8; CV4 = 3; CV12 = 0; CV25 = 11; CV29 = 50; CV209 =60; CV210 = 10; CV213 = 10; CV217 = 2.
Apparently some folks have found the Tsunami works better if you turn off the DC "dual mode" option, which is one of the things these settings do. As I mentioned earlier, the Tsunami can be tricky because you can change a CV to turn something on, but then in some cases you have to be sure another CV has a certain value in it, or the first CV doesn't have any effect...so sometimes to get one thing to work the way you want you have to set two or three different CVs.
Thanks Stix I printed the specs out and will try them when I get the patience to go back to the little monster. I'm going to whip it into shape sooner or later.
Have a good one.
Lee
My 2-6-6-2 is one of my best engines, only instead of a Tsunami it has a TCS regular decoder with an MRC Sounder added. It will walk along with 30 cars at 12 MPH no trouble. Just remember the real engines didn't go over 20 MPH, don't expect it to become a greyhound !!
wjstixJust remember the real engines didn't go over 20 MPH, don't expect it to become a greyhound !!
Not really true, while they likely did not hit much higher speeds often, they could and did go faster than 20 mph. All the science of steam locos says their top speed would likely have been more like 40-45. And speeds in the low 30's would have been typical in type of service they wHere used in.
And, back to the model, if the DC version goes 45, which it does, the DCC version should as well.
On a regulated 13.5 volts (not some over voltage cheap powerpack at 16-18 volts) my three DC versions go 45.
Sheldon