CBS072 posted:Can you make it work in a dummy engine for TMCC control, lights, couplers, sound and maybe smoke?
A F3B/F7B may only need smoke and sound?
Sure, it'll have all the capabilities of the R2(4)LC, which includes all of those things.
Jan posted:What are the capabilities of an R2LC/R4LC? Is there a datasheet or specification available?
None that I'm aware of, but the capabilities are pretty well known.
superwarp1 posted:I’ll second this. Question, you won’t be stepping on anyone’s patent with this?
Nope, we're using the Lionel TMCC receiver.
Hancock52 posted:FWIW, this is the application I'd be most interested in. I've never used the coupler function on the Mini Commanders I have installed but the ability to use one of the HC outputs for smoke has been important.
Of course sound capability is kind of the Holy Grail; I've had to use ERR's little dummy engine board for that. Pardon my ignorance GRJ but I don't know whether the components you are thinking of using allow for sound.
ERR's Softset programing was very convenient but I could live without that.
Sound as far as this module is concerned it simply having the capability of feeding a standard sound board, that just takes power and serial data. If a standard TMCC locomotive could do it, we should be able to support it, the R2(4)LC is where all that happens. What I'm visualizing is simply a motor driver (H-Bridge) chip, a latching circuit of some kind to leverage the many times unused coupler outputs, and perhaps a couple components to allow direct LED attachment for the light outputs.
What I'm really fishing for here is if there is some other good ideas of things we might add that I haven't thought of. Obviously, one of the requirements is that they don't take a lot of parts to do as we're also trying to keep the package pretty compact.
