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I was wondering....has anyone had experience of .....
If you have a few 3 amp decoders (no sound) and you wanted to add sound you can obviously wire an 'only' sound decoder to the main decoder etc.. But what if the available 'sound only' decoders did not have the correct sounds that you were looking for?
So...
If you had something like a Galloping Goose and you wanted to add sound to a 3 amp motor decoder could a 1 amp HO/OO sound/function decoder be powered and driven from one of the function outputs on the 3amp board.
Although the Goose might only, most of the time, draw one amp so the OO/HO sound/function decoder could be used on its own, there will be times when the current draw will exceed 1 amp and may cause problems.
I ask this as there are cheap OO/HO gauge sound-decoders done by firms like Soundtraxx which have a good range of American sounds (bigger US library than Massoth etc).
An ESU Loksound XLor full 6 amp sound decoder from QSI is a bit of overkill for a Goose and also a fair bit more costly than the solution that I am investigating.
I do know that I could get rid of the motor/ function only decoder and then fork out for something like an ESU Loksound XL and download the sound for the goose. But I am trying to see if I can use the straight decoders together with low amp-rated sound decoders.
If you have a few 3 amp decoders (no sound) and you wanted to add sound you can obviously wire an 'only' sound decoder to the main decoder etc.. But what if the available 'sound only' decoders did not have the correct sounds that you were looking for?
So...
If you had something like a Galloping Goose and you wanted to add sound to a 3 amp motor decoder could a 1 amp HO/OO sound/function decoder be powered and driven from one of the function outputs on the 3amp board.
Although the Goose might only, most of the time, draw one amp so the OO/HO sound/function decoder could be used on its own, there will be times when the current draw will exceed 1 amp and may cause problems.
I ask this as there are cheap OO/HO gauge sound-decoders done by firms like Soundtraxx which have a good range of American sounds (bigger US library than Massoth etc).
An ESU Loksound XLor full 6 amp sound decoder from QSI is a bit of overkill for a Goose and also a fair bit more costly than the solution that I am investigating.
I do know that I could get rid of the motor/ function only decoder and then fork out for something like an ESU Loksound XL and download the sound for the goose. But I am trying to see if I can use the straight decoders together with low amp-rated sound decoders.