MTH Liberty Liner LED Lighting Upgrade

Nice!

Very cool!

I liked it so much I took a little time and did the other three cars!   Now it draws around half an amp running it's station stops, it used to be knocking on the door to two amps.   Oh, the lights don't flicker any more and they're more evenly distributed as well.

as always nice job John see you in York!

@FredB posted:

as always nice job John see you in York!

Only a month away, time to start packing!

Got a kit for that?  I have a Liberty Liner and Electroliner that could use that upgrade at some point... ;-)

Mitch

No kit, I just used my lighting modules and some LED strips.  The rear three cars all have springs connecting to the shell, so all the work was in the shell.  Mount the strip, wire the module to the contacts and the strip, stick the module down with DS foam tape, put the top back on.

Very cool.  I'm anxiously awaiting views of the finished product...

OK, here's a quick drive-by with the new lighting installed.   I kept it to 100mb so I could upload directly.

Beautiful!  My only objection is the sound of the ALCo prime mover...

Perhaps this sound set would be more appropriate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfOKAxq1c

Alco prime mover?  What you're hearing are what passes for MTH electric locomotive sounds.  I doubt I can take that video and "transplant" the sounds.

MTH never did an actual electric-traction version of PS3. Attempting to shoehorn electric sounds into  diesel sound programming is how you get the results above--sounds that should be directly proportional to the actual speed of the unit are instead pitching up and down to distinct plateaus (diesel notches) .

The open-source train simulator OpenBVE is able to manipulate the speed and pitch of fixed motor-sound samples--I guess no one ever thought to study how it accomplished that feat (which was reverse engineered from an earlier program written by a Japanese hobbyist) .

---PCJ

Well, since the electric-traction sounds you illustrate aren't available for this model (PS/2 BTW), I'll have to live with what was supplied.  I'm pretty sure I"m not going to generate my own sounds for it.

AAMOF, in point of fact, the in person sounds of this set is nothing like diesel sounds.  It probably isn't perfect electric sounds, but it's certainly not diesel sound.