PROTO SOUND ENG. PROGRAMING

Are you talking PS-1 or a DCS PS engine?  Do a feature reset if your talking command control with DCS.  G

PS-1 

thank you MOMK

Have you checked the volume pot to make sure the volume is turned up?  As for programming it, look in the manual.  Feature 18 reset should bring the sounds back.  I don't remember which feature ## controlled the locomotive steam/motor volume.

Feature 6 is engine volume. MPG on the variable channel has it listed.

Barry can you give me any INFO about this ?

thank you MONK

Monk,

I've never even owned a PS1 engine except to buy it for a replacement cab for a PS2 engine, let alone run one under DCS. I'm just the wrong guy to help you on this one.

I talked to a friend of mine ,he told me he had the same problem. It was a scrambled chip. due to a dead battery, all though the battery now is a good one. I plane on up grading to a PS-3.

thank you all MONK 

Monk,

Years ago I tried to run my PS1 Blue Comet with a poorly charged battery. I got the famous "3 clanks of death" then the engine was dead. I bought a new chip and tool, performed the install and my engine came back to life but I only had sounds in neutral which I believe you are describing now. I lived with it for a while until I read this post. I had forgotten the sequence of Z4000 handle movements to manually get to reset 18 when the issue occurred. I just went down to my layout put the engine on a variable DCS track, found the soft key MPG, scrolled to reset 18 and boom all sounds came back, even when the engine was moving!!

This forum is the best!!

With a scrambled chip a PS1 engine will not move. Did you have any sounds when it starts up? A reset by using Feature 18 as Sinclair suggested would be the first thing to try. The DCS remote will walk you through the steps using the variable channel.

Since it is moving it is not scrambled.  So reset 18 should do it.  I recommend pressing whistle 2 for the 2 resets states.  The second whistle reset on later models resets chuff rate. G