Model Railroading > horn on atlas rs1

I have an atlas with factory installed loksound decoder.  I have increased the volume to max (cv175 to 128)  but the horn is still not loud enough.  Before changing the volume I set cv32 to 1.
Is there anything that I need to do.  Do I need to set cv16 to 1 also?

 

Rip-out the offending decoder and go whoo, whoo when needed in your train room and/or in your mind; then save +/-$100 on each of your locos. :)

You can't do the horn, bell, engine chug, turbo whine, brake squeal and fireman Fred observations and other things at the same time. In order to invite enough people over to the layout your will spend more than $100 in beer to keep them happy enough to play the game for you.

fbe:  FIRST !

fbe Wrote:
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> You can't do the horn, bell, engine chug, turbo
> whine, brake squeal and fireman Fred observations
> and other things at the same time. In order to
> invite enough people over to the layout your will
> spend more than $100 in beer to keep them happy
> enough to play the game for you.

along with the beer hand out ear plugs too!

schneid Wrote:
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> I have an atlas with factory installed loksound
> decoder.  I have increased the volume to max
> (cv175 to 128)  but the horn is still not loud
> enough.  Before changing the volume I set cv32 to
> 1.
> Is there anything that I need to do.  Do I need
> to set cv16 to 1 also?

If the problem is that your horn is being drown out by the other sounds, turn the master volume back down, and there should be a CV that will adjust ONLY the horn volume. That's the one you want to turn up.

 - Looks like you need to set CV31 = 16, then CV32 = 1, and then CV275 is the Horn volume.

There could be many reasons that the horn sound is that way. If CV settings are at max you have only one options and that is to try a better quality speaker. There are many horn sounds in sound decoders over the years that were recorded and installed at low volumes. Gen 1 Tsunami's were famous for that. Nothing you can do but live with it or go to another sound decoder.

Bruce


schneid Wrote:
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> I have an atlas with factory installed loksound
> decoder.  I have increased the volume to max
> (cv175 to 128)  but the horn is still not loud
> enough.  Before changing the volume I set cv32 to
> 1.
> Is there anything that I need to do.  Do I need
> to set cv16 to 1 also?
>
>  

thank you for the info.