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Hi,

It's been stored away for quite a few years & I misplaced the instruction booklet. It's an early 5 volt PS2. I changed the battery with a new charged battery. It entered into DCS  without problem. It has whistle & bell sounds as well as brake, etc. & also does the station stops with announcements, etc. The only odd thing is it doesn't have any engine motor sounds. Is it suppose to?

Thank you,

Joe

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Bad speakers effect certain frequencies but not all, especially when it is a magnet disintegrating.  The electric sound is different, but there is one.  Feature reset should return all sounds, but if a bad speaker especially since other sounds garbled, that may be it.  Motor sounds are not very loud to start.  G

I installed a new speaker in the subway engine today & yes, it does have an engine sound. There was a lot of flaking (magnet disintegrating), on the old speaker. As George suggested, even though some sounds were playing, but a little garbled, the engine sound was not audible, I guess, due to it being a different frequency.
 
I'm not very familiar with most of these engines & their electronics, but the guts were really shoe horned in! I hope I got it back together ok. It seems to be running as I remember, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
 
Thanks for the suggestions.
 
Joe

Hi Ken,

That was nearly a year ago & if that's what I did, as stated here, I guess that solved the issue. GGG, Gcubed, (gcubed@cox.net) made the suggestion & I may have purchased the speaker from him but I believe I actually bought the speaker from John Will (GUNRUNNERJOHN). I know I purchased more than one speaker from John. If you contact him, be sure to give all the information of the item which I guess is the same as mine?

Joe

gunrunnerjohn posted:
Maverick0394 posted:

Hi Joe, just to be clear, you replaced the speaker and THEN the engine sound returned? If so where did you get the speaker? Thanks so much, I am having the same issue, all sounds work except for the engine sound.

 Ken

Did you try adjusting the sound from the DCS remote?

No dcs, running conventional, just ordered a bcr-1 battery replacement...step two will be the speaker if it wasn’t the battery. Btw, does replacing speaker involve soldering? Thanks in advance.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Yep to soldering unless you get the leads and connector on it before you get it. 

right, got it...one last question, instead of soldering couldn't I just splice the new speaker wire onto existing one leading to car body? I would cut the old speaker out and leave enough wire to connect new speaker..no? Thanks again for everything

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