What is the difference between "sound-equipped" locomotives and "sound-value" equipped locomotives (what the new Alco 2-6-0 is being called)? Sounds like a legalese tripping point of some kind. What is "not there" now that "was there" "before"?
PF
I guess I've never seen the phrase "sound-value" but I would guess it's either a cheaper sound decoder or it's been setup for a sound decoder (i.e. place engineered for speaker) but doesn't have a sound decoder installed.
I wonder where you saw that?? The website says it's available "DCC sound equipped" and "DCC Ready" (which probably means there is a DCC receptacle in the tender).
Quote from: wjstix on November 07, 2011, 05:53:45 PM
I wonder where you saw that?? The website says it's available "DCC sound equipped" and "DCC Ready" (which probably means there is a DCC receptacle in the tender).
Have a look at this link......
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/products.php?act=viewProd&productId=3900 (http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/products.php?act=viewProd&productId=3900)
........the description clearly says "Sound Value SoundTraxx® sound package ".
Sounds like a watered down version of the Tsunami Bachmann already uses.
Sid
From what I have heard, it isn't a tsunami sound decoder but a PC Board that is instead of having a decoder that plugs into it, the PC Board IS the decoder (for the S4 and FA-A and FA-B units. Not sure about the 2-6-0 though.)
Quote from: MilwaukeeRoadfan261 on November 07, 2011, 10:05:17 PM
From what I have heard, it isn't a tsunami sound decoder but a PC Board that is instead of having a decoder that plugs into it, the PC Board IS the decoder (for the S4 and FA-A and FA-B units. Not sure about the 2-6-0 though.)
Sound value models.
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/2011_NMRA.pdf
Rich