Reply to "LionChief Curcuit Board with 4 Ohm load?"

Rayin"S"OGR Forum Member

@Craftech posted:
LionChief 0-8-0 too quiet, barely audible especially with 2nd loco especially on FasTrack.
Tender barely has enough headroom for a baffle. I made one anyway and drilled a few extra speaker holes in the bottom because Lionel mounted the speaker off center from the grill holes.
Barely a difference in volume.
I have a 30mm 8 ohm speaker which I could mount up inside of the coal load facing upward. Small holes drilled in the black coal load are not noticeable. I have confirmed this with an HO installation I did a few months ago. I want to hook this up in parallel to the existing 8 ohm speaker.
What I don't know is if the resulting 4 ohm load will damage the LionChief circuit board.
Anyone know?
Thanks,
John

I don't know if this would work in your case but in the American Flyer Flyerchief engines I have I pulled the stock speaker and replaced it with the Fatboy speaker included with the sound boards that ERR sold, that made a vast improvement.

Ray

3/10/2310:00 AM

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