ESU SOUND DECODER AND LGB HANDSET COMPATIBILITY

[TONYWARD50]

Hi chaps. A colleague has fitted and programmed an ESU Loksound with the sound for the Piko TEE Unit. We know it is correctly programmed as it works perfectly with the ESU Programmer and test track.
However, when he connects the LGB MTS (Mk3 ?) Handset, the loco moves ok but a lot of the sounds are missing, and whereas F2 should be the horn (as it is on the test track) the MTS switches the sound off altogether.
I have tried the same with my NMassoth Dimax and it is fine, so it suggests a problem between the decoder and MTS.

Can anyone shed any light, please ?

Regards

 

[Zerogee]

Hi chaps. A colleague has fitted and programmed an ESU Loksound with the sound for the Piko TEE Unit. We know it is correctly programmed as it works perfectly with the ESU Programmer and test track.
However, when he connects the LGB MTS (Mk3 ?) Handset, the loco moves ok but a lot of the sounds are missing, and whereas F2 should be the horn (as it is on the test track) the MTS switches the sound off altogether.
I have tried the same with my NMassoth Dimax and it is fine, so it suggests a problem between the decoder and MTS.

Can anyone shed any light, please ?

Regards

A pure guess, Tony, and worth exactly what you paid for it - but it couldn't be a serial/parallel problem could it?

Jon.

 

[TONYWARD50]

Quite possibly, but I can't get any more info

 

[bigjack]

I had an ESU sound decoder when had MTS2, and it never worked correctly. Now have Massoth and no problems.

And I do believe that there is a setting where you can set the decoder to the MTS system. Maybe that will help. Just going to have a look

 

[bigjack]

CV 49 set to bit 32. That should enable LGB functions.

Hope this helps.

 

[Cliff George]

I'd suspect the serial/parallel function problem, as Jon said.

According to the ESU LocSound V4 manual (is that what your colleague has?) it seems that CV 49 bit 5 controls if the decoder supports LGB serial mode or not. By default the decoder does not support the serial mode. Add 32 to the existing value in CV 49 and see what happens.

I have two ESU decoders and they work just fine.

Edit: Sorry my response crossed with bigjack's, at least we are saying the same thing!

 

[PaulRhB]

Yep that's the key CV, I've got 3 Esu chips and serial MTS and they work fine once that's set. Some of the chip sound sets have functions in weird order so I just moved them around on the lokprogrammer so the same functions were in the same places. I moved shunt speed to F10 so I didn't keep activating it and wondering what had gone wrong with the speed!