TTS HST 43 Help needed

[David Pullman]

Looking for advice, have new HST On order due Autumn 2021

TTS Decoder shown is Valencia with 1 decoder and 1 round speaker at £69 (for that price I would expect 2 decoderS, also shown is a twin decoder R8210 with 2 oblong speakers, while I appreciate Valencia sound may be different it is odd that the speakers differ so much.

My question is the Valencia with round speaker (available on back order ) correct or is R8120 with square speakers correct , Hornby do not even mention back order for R8120 although I think Other retailers do ?

[ellocoloco]

Hi David and welcome to the forum.

Valencia is a lovely city, in fact my wife is from there - and so are the Class 67s

But nothing from the HST is connected to Valencia but they have a Valenta engine.........

You would need to see which HST model you have ordered. If you have ordered a model of the Valenta powered units, then that's the TTS you would need. You can change the speakers if necessary. I think the other TTS HST set is the MTU engine sound. Google the HST you have ordered and see which engine the real one has.

[96RAF]

R7140 is the Valenta engined TTS decoder for HST and R8120 is the MTU engined TTS decoder for HST.

They are both sold as a twin pack and as far as I know they are supplied with the oblong speaker. The =£70 price tells you if it is a twin pack or not.

If they are being sold as singles then I suspect they have been ripped from a factory fit loco. Check the packaging which should be the twin pack box and the user manual should be a proper printout not an obvious photocopy.

[ColinB]

As Hornby at the moment have run out of stock, I have seen some disreputable people on EBay selling the single packs for the same price as a dual one. I am pretty sure my MTU one came with round speakers, the only one I have seen at the moment with rectangular speakers is the class 66. Hornby though may have changed the specification since I bought mine.