TTS Decoders in a Pannier Tank

[garrettendi]

Hi all,

 

I was originally going to use a battery-powered motion-detecting sound solution installed in a carriage to get sound on my layout, but the new TTS Decoders are exactly the same price! More-over, the speakers for something like the A1 & A3 Class TTS Sound Decoder seems quite small.

 

Could anyone hazard a guess as to whether I could squeeze it into a pannier tank? Or would the lack of room mean the sound simply has no room to reverberate?

 

Thanks

garrettendi

[96RAF]

See the article on my signature link where I have put TTS kit into a 2728 pannier tank.

 

Speaker facing up the chimney and decoder in the coal hole.

 

    

 

 

Sacrifice a bit more of the weights and you could put a rectangular speaker in there rather than the 28mm round one.

Rob

[Percybigun]

Avoid the traintech capsule, its overpriced, very hard and time consuming to make work properly, and even on max volume with a decent sound enclosure you wont be able to hear it. Plus the chuff sound they chose is a bit naff. You are far better off with TTS sound.

[Fishmanoz]

Hornby have yet to market their separate TTS kits, they are showing pre-order until later in the year, but many model shops are already selling them by removing them from fitted locos and selling loco and TTS separately. 

[Fishmanoz]

Hacked Deepfat, no, you get what you get. I'll let others who own a few comment on differences. 

[96RAF]

With my dodgy hearing the steam sounds are much the same, apart from acoustic differences due to speaker mounting variances. The various other sounds are appropriate to the loco modelled - whistles, clanks, etcs.

 

Obviously some TTS locos didn't make it into preservation so I guess those are 'photo-shopped' in the sound studio based on the nearest equivalent, 2-3-4 cylinder, etc.

 

Diesel engine sounds are modelled on actual prototype sounds as are the additional sounds such as horns, fans and valves, etc.