Here is the location of the volume adjustment on the board:

These will be A-B units and will be in stock late 1st quarter/ early 2nd quarter.

Lee,

The E-Z Street^? Expressway set, as well as the new sedans (Blue Sedan and Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey? Clown Car) are in transit to us now and should be shipping out to dealers mid-December.   The turnouts will be arriving 1st quarter of 2015.

Regards,

3rail

Would should have them sometime this Fall.

Faraway,

Sorry about losing your post, but we had a problem during our upgrade and we had to restore back to yesterday's data.

Here is your exact post from this morning:

My very first Value Sound GP7 arrived an hour ago.
It runs great and I am changing some CVs (not so fast and not so loud). All that works fine but front and rear light stop functioning if I change the address (CV1) from 3 to 5.
I have never seen any dependency between address (CV1) and standard lights (CV33/34) on any other decoders.
Could you please enlighten me. I assume I missed some fundamentals with Tsunami Value Sound decoders I am not used to with other brands.

Great job on the LED upgrades.

One thing that you need to know.  On certain transformers the reverse board may not sequence correctly after you remove the light bulb.  This is caused by some leak voltage given off by the transformer that does not allow the reverse board to advance to the next state. You can eliminate the problem by using a lighted lockon, running a lighted caboose, lighted passenger car, or connecting a lightbulb to the track power (like a streetlight, house light).

Regards,

3rail

Dieseler:

Does it look like this with a flywheel?


If so it should work.  If not, it will not. You would have to order two complete trucks with motors.

You can order online here:
http://estore.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66_77_225&products_id=6953

Regards,

3rail

WMwalker,

It is not directional lighting, but I believe we are transitioning to LED lighting on this production run. Please note that we stated in the catalog that HO models were used for  illustrative purposes. The models will be the same style as the 2013 catalog with upgraded sound and a lock-out feature.

Regards,

3rail

Dan,


There were several early versions of the reverse boards. I only have one old diagram that may work for your board.  If the shapes and the layout of the components match your board, then this should work.



The Lionel lever stops the e-unit from getting power and locks the drum in whatever position that it was in when power was last applied.  The lock switch on this circuit will not last for extended periods of time.  If the loco sits without power the capacitors will eventually drain and it will be locked in forward on the next operating session. If you had locked it in Neutral or Reverse, you will have to flip the switch, get the loco in the desired state and flip the switch again to re-lock.

Regards,

3rail

Boxcar,

You can also un-mount the motors and install the front motor on the rear truck and the rear motor on the front truck without rewiring anything.


If you installed in the dummy unit to start-up in forward when you put it on the opposite direction as the lead unit, it will still start up in forward this fighting the lead unit. It will not run in reverse just because it is on the track backwards.

If you installed to start in reverse as the start-up direction.  The only way they will get out of sync is if you power them up one at a time (i.e. put one on the track apply power, turn off power, put second on track and apply power within 10 seconds).

Once you get them working correctly, it is very important to use the direction button on your transformer.  Press and HOLD the direction button for 1 full second AFTER the train has come to a COMPLETE stop.  If you follow these directions it will always work.  If you don't  and they get out of sync, completely power off for 20-30 seconds and the boards will reset.

Regards,

3rail

 Brianel027,

We are still in the sampling phase of development, but we will test the final product to operate and pull cars on O-27.  The couplers are designed differently than the Beep and pivot much closer to the opening.  I personally have some O-27 cars that will not work in the front of the train no matter what loco I use because they are too light.  However, when weighted it fixes the problem. So, in some cases the cars may be the problem not the loco.

Regards,

3rail

Guys,

The K-Line remote only works with the K-Line cars and the Williams remote only works with Williams cars.  Requirements to pass FCC testing did not allow us to make the remote work with the older K-Line cars.

Regards,

3rail

We were developing a board for passenger cars and pre-wired the baggage car with a socket.  There was a label on the bottom of the cars identifying them. We cancelled the project before announcing it and the passenger cars were already produced.

However, there were cars made in the 1990's that did have a board installed. Check with the seller to make sure before you bid.

Regards,

3rail

Lee,

All that is required to install either of these diesel boards is power (two wires), and the physical space to install them.  They come with a plug installed that will go into any of our reverse boards that have sockets.  For older installations, you must cut the plug off and hard wire.

Regards,

3rail

I will summarize all the features.

1.  The True Blast Plus sound board cannot turn off prime mover sound.   All of the feedback that we were getting was that people wanted the sounds.  Now you want to turn them off!    The Prime mover sound varies with track voltage. You can adjust the master volume on the board, if you take off the shell.

2.  The board is polyphonic.  Meaning that all sounds can play at the same time.  True Blast II was monophonic only one sound at a time.

3.  Sounds are prototypical to loco type.  True Blast II was a generic sound set.

4.  You can control the length of the horn blast on the True Blast Plus board. The True Blast II was a pre-programmed grade crossing.



Yes you can use the True Blast II board in place of True Blast Plus.  Both use the same power plug that connects to the reverse board, so it is an easy swap. 

Regards,

3rail