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Tsunami and analog?

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Tsunami and analog?
Posted by mrgstrain on Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:54 PM

Are all Tsunami decoder's capable of running in analog?

I have one that is installed in an F unit. It will run fine with DCC but it will not run analog. I did not do the install, it was already  installed.

I have even reset the decoder back to factory default, which seem's to be working because the address goes back to #3.

any ideas?

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Posted by maxman on Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:36 PM

You probably need to enable analog operation.  See table A on page 16 of the following: http://www.soundtraxx.com/manuals/Users%20Guide%20Diesel.pdf

If you want no speed tables, extended address, 28/128 speed step operation in DCC, normal direction, and analog operation, then CV29 needs to be 38.  Try that and see what happens.

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:51 PM

Tsunami's are shipped from the factory with analog disabled.  Go to page 53 of the manual link from above.  You need to set CV12 to 1 before setting CV 29.

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Posted by mrgstrain on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:03 AM

Thank's

I will give that a shot over the weekend & see what happen's.

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Posted by Train Modeler on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:43 AM

Sometimes you may have to reset the start voltages, feedback etc to get it to run well on DC at slow speed.   Covered in manual.

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Posted by richg1998 on Friday, October 14, 2011 1:30 PM

My Spectrum with on board Tsunami run on DC out of the box.

Tsunami I installed myself, I had to activate the DC option as I recall now but normally do not use DC.

If you buy a loco with Tsunami from say a private sale or one that was on consignment at a LHS, all bet might be off as some users disable the DC option as it can affect the decoder when using DCC from reports I have read in some other forums.

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Posted by mrgstrain on Monday, October 17, 2011 9:51 AM

Thank's guy's. That did the trick. Got it to work just fine.

 Larry

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