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hank you for purchasing the Broadway

Limited Rolling Thunder

System. We

strive every day to make model railroading

a more enjoyable hobby and to that

end, we’ve developed Rolling Thunder

Real trains shake the very ground they roll

on. Their sounds are unmistakable in their

depth and power. With your new Rolling

Thunder

system, you can unlock the more

realistic sounds of your Paragon3 equipped

BLI locomotives in both frequency and

volume. Rolling Thunder

truly represents

the next generation in model railroading

technology. Enjoy.

Robert Grubba

President / CEO

Broadway Limited Imports, LLC

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Page 1: ...1 ROLLING THUNDERTM SYNCHRONIZED FULL SPECTRUM SOUNDS YOU CAN FEEL ...

Page 2: ...underTM Real trains shake the very ground they roll on Their sounds are unmistakable in their depth and power With your new Rolling ThunderTM system you can unlock the more realistic sounds of your Paragon3 equipped BLI locomotives in both frequency and volume Rolling ThunderTM truly represents the next generation in model railroading technology Enjoy Robert Grubba President CEO Broadway Limited I...

Page 3: ...tem transmit the low frequency portion of the locomotive sounds to the Rolling ThunderTM receiver The receiver is connected to a powerful subwoofer that reproduces the deep rumbling sounds of a real locomotive perfectly synchronized to the movement of the model and to the higher frequency sounds that continue to play through the speaker in the model The result is the most realistic sounding model ...

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Page 6: ...6 WWW BROADWAY LIMITED COM Setup Formostlayouts thesubwoofershould be positioned under the center of the layout The receiver should be RT Receiver Subwoofer RCA Cable Wall Power ...

Page 7: ...hen stay on The supplied RCA cable should be used to connect the receiver to the subwoofer To start set the Subwoofer Level knob to 6 and the Low Pass Frequency knob to 200 Turn on the power switch LOW PASS FREQUENCY Hz SUBWOOFER LEVEL Place your Paragon3 locomotive on the track and operate normally You should hear the deep low frequency ...

Page 8: ...her The locomotive can typically transmit about 15 feet but may need to be closer to the receiver to begin transmitting Positioning the receiver near the height of the track will improve reception When running a locomotive adjusting the volume of the locomotive with Function Key 8 or with the DC Master will also adjust the volume played through the subwoofer Setting CV214 for a locomotive will adj...

Page 9: ...er can only play the sounds of one locomotive at a time Once the receiver locks onto the first locomotive it will continue to play the sounds from that locomotive until that locomotive moves out of range or is turned off after which the next available locomotive will begin playing through the subwoofer If more than one locomotive is running at the same time each locomotive must be set to a unique ...

Page 10: ...selected by setting CV 212 for that locomotive to a value between 1 and 29 Channels 1 4 should be used first Then 5 6 7 etc Using channels 5 29 require changing CV143 in the receiver to match the highest channel number See page 16 ...

Page 11: ...lectrical interference it may be necessary to increase the transmitterpowerofthelocomotive To do that set CV213 for that locomotive according to the following table Transmitter Power Level 915 MHz Locomotive CV 213 Value 1 Lowest 240 2 224 3 208 4 192 5 176 6 160 7 144 8 Highest 128 ...

Page 12: ... from the subwoofer while still transmitting it becomes apparent to the listener that the low frequency sounds are not coming from the locomotive For this reason once the locomotive starts to get out of transmission range the subwoofer sounds will begin to fade away Once the locomotive or another locomotive gets close to the receiver again the low frequency sounds will gradually fade in and begin ...

Page 13: ...Very small layouts may require some fine tuning of the receiver See below Multiple Receivers and Subwoofers Larger layouts can be equipped with multiple receivers and transmitters If they are spaced out around the layout the low frequency sounds will follow the locomotive as it moves around the layout This provides a very realistic effect Fine Tuning the Receiver There are a number of settings in ...

Page 14: ...he receiver to your track Using DCMaster hold both the Aux and Vol buttons down while turning on track power all the way Then use the Bell and Horn buttons to display the CV you want to change Press Vol to select Then use Bell and Horn to display the new value Press Vol to select For DCC the receiver s default address is 1 You will need to use Operations Mode programming To change CV s press the P...

Page 15: ...ight will start flashing Program the desired CV s and then press the Program Reset button again to exit the programming mode After programming it is best to switch back to the wall power plug to prevent inadvertent reprogramming RT Receiver ...

Page 16: ... sets the ending scan channel Its default is 4 To use more than 4 separate locomotive channels set CV143 for the receiver equal to the highest locomotive channel used Acceptable values Are 1 29 Setting the value higher than needed can increase the time required for the receiver to connect to each locomotive To dedicate a subwoofer to one locomotive set the receiver CV142 143 to the channel of the ...

Page 17: ...ubwoofer for each loop Loop 1 CV212 of the locomotives 1 and for that receiver CV142 1 and CV 143 1 Loop 2 CV212 of the locomotives 2 and for that receiver CV142 2 and CV 143 2 Two receivers can be connected to one subwoofer using BLI part 1597 Multi Receiver Expansion Cable Plug the expansion cable into the subwoofer and connect the RCA cables from the receivers into the expansion cable ...

Page 18: ... Reset To reset the receiver to factory defaults unplug the power cord Hold down the Program Reset button while plugging the power cord back in Or set CV8 to 8 RT Receiver USB CONNECTION POWER INDICATOR LIGHT RESET PROGRAM BUTTON ...

Page 19: ...t sufficient change the following CV s in the receiver using the instructions on page 14 Set CV141 to 40 Set CV136 to 50 Set CV135 to 60 These settings lower the signal strength needed to lock onto a locomotive CV141 is the minimum signal strength to lock onto Default is 100 so 40 is pretty low Setting lower than 40 can cause it to lock onto background noise ...

Page 20: ... lower than CV135 If the range is still insufficient set CV142 and CV143 to 1 CV143 is the upper scan channel CV142 is the lower scan channel If CV142 and CV143 both equal 1 the receiver will only receive from locomotives on channel 1 instead of scanning This helps if the signal strength is weakened by local interference The locomotive must be set to channel 1 also which is the default setting CV2...

Page 21: ...ocomotive As a last resort set CV132 minimum bass volume to 60 and try setting CV141 to a lower value than 40 For more detailed instructions refer to the Rolling Thunder Technical Reference manual at www broadway limited com ...

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