The Stainz I have is from the late Lehman era of LGB, came with or without sound. Mine is without but has the speaker box/port in the roof of the cab. I see the sound boards, 2 of them, one for the boiler and one for the cab. If I put those in my Stainz, is that all that is needed to get the basic factory sound? Thats all I am interested in, no dcc or other mumbo jumbo so please dont go into why that would be better. But if someone has removed the factory sound or knows if those 2 boards are all I need, please let me know. Thanks Mike
Never mind, it has the sound, switch was in the non sound mode. Duh! (slaps self upside his head!)
From what I remember, the LGB stainz board can run direct from track power, the boiler board is not needed.
I sold my funky sound board and installed a real sound unit in my Stainz.
LGB sound board for chuff only was $40 for the part from Train-Li, but a MX645 sound decoder was just $85 and had all stainz sounds plus 1 reed input connection and can be set up for analog as well as DCC operation.
So that MX645 has the correct Stainz sounds, and with the 1 reed input can be set up to trigger the whistle on analog? The sound is definatly not the star of this model, would be ok if it had whistle ablities. Can you give me more details on putting that sound board in your Stainz? Where you put the board, speaker used, any problems or modifications you had to do. Thanks Mike
The decoder is small enough that it fits between the boiler weight and the firebox. Or on top of the weight.
This decoder has programmable light outputs and you can use it to light up the firebox if you drill holes in the firebox.
Like all decoders, you can download the manual from the manufacturer. www.zimo.at
Dan have you had any problems with your mx645 decoders? I had one in a stainz and one in a power tender. All worked well for a while then one day started running at two way different speeds. Checked the motors and both were fine. Tried copying the cv’s from the one that did not slow down and wrote them to the other no help??? I think the mx645 in the little Stainz engines is the best but of 4 Mx645’s I own two so far are not working properly. Proably something I missed as I am very new to DCC.
I have not run 2 decoders in a consist yet, but I would check several things.
Firmware revision, lastest is 30.36. CV7 =30, CV65=36. This just came out, but both decoders should be the same rev as I assume you do not have the latest or a programmer.
Previous rev was 30.27.
Next is the CV’s 2-6 and then the speed steps 67-94 plus 66 and 95 for the direction timing.