Coffee Pot

This is an intermediate skill installation with some function splitting.

The roof of the passenger carriage is removed using a fin X-Acto blade - it is retained by four [4] moulded in clips.

With the roof removed the factory-installed wiring and boards are exposed.

With this installation, two [2] speakers were installed. One a 0.75'' round was installed in the provided location under the passenger carriage covered by a black casting with some small holes.

The second was an ESU 16 x 25 installed under the cab roof, combined these gave a good spread of sound removing the possibility of the engine being perceived as being under the carriage.

There was two brown projection that had to be removed to allow the floor-mounted speaker to be fitted and these were removed with a pair of angled Xuron nippers.

Both speakers were wired in parallel and providing a final resistance of 12 ohms which is fins with the sound decoders selected.

The selected decoder was a Soundtraxx Econami UK with the whistle and chuff left on defaults and auto brake, cylinder cocks activated. The air compressor was activated, but not a dynamo for the headlight as these would have been an oil lamp or similar.

The lights used for these was a low brightness for the headlight and passenger carriage. Firebox flicker was used for the firebox and another low-intensity light for the passenger compartment.

An eight [8] pin plug was soldered to the wires supplied with the decoder and then a series of solder pads fixed with contact cement to allow the functions to be split up. 

FireBox
A red LasicDCC LED light was fixed to the weight in the cab with the LED closest to the floor. These are complete and ready to use, so no resistors just connect to the green wire - FX3. This has the flickering firebox effect added.

Passenger Car Lights
The factory lights were reused but separated into FX4 to allow operator operation to separate it from the headlight.

Note location of orange wire.

Install solder pad into the corner shown then collect all the blue wires from the two compartments and vestibule onto that pad and then fit brown wire from FX4 - this places this output in control of the lights.

Positives/Stay Alive
All the positives for the lights were collected as shown and a single wire runs from the blue on the eight [8] pin plug to the pad.

A stay alive was installed to ensure smooth operation due to the limited pickup of this engine, in-fact all steam engines should have these fitted.

Overall it worked well

Ixion 32 Class

This blog cove the installation of a Soundtraxx Tsunami with stay alive into the Ixion Class

Installation
This could be described as a relatively easy installation

Remove the tender, this is secured by three [3] clips located along both sides of the tender floor. The best method is to insert a single edge blade in the gap between the shell and floor and lever open the tender from both sides.

One removed to disconnect the plug to the rear marker lights and place the shell to one side

The installation required the addition of an 8 pin plug wired the NMRA standards and trimming the loom to about 30 mm long. 

Do not cut the yellow-green wire of the purple speaker wires.

Next, remove the factory speaker mount and trim off all the lugs. 

Dress the underside if the factory supplied board and fix to the tender floor using a cardboard insulator and contact cement - this is outlined in the instructions for the Wombat  30T.

Install to the image below, the speaker is fixed at the rear using contact cement leaving enough room for the Lasic small stay alive. This as also secured with a drop of contact cement thought blue tack would work

The decoder is installed on its side in a bed of blue tack.

To allow the shell to be re-fitted the internal weight need to be relocated into the coal bunker. The first task is to remove the lower lip on the underside to allow a neat coal load to be formed. The weight is glued providing an opening all the way around three [3] side again for the coal load.

Material Required

Soundtraxx TSU1000 Tusanimi 2 custom programmed by MRRC

MRRC Micro Boost Large

Lasic Small Stay Alive