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F40PH Diesel Operating Manual
HORN OPERATION
Your EMD F40PH ProtoSound-equipped engine is equipped with a digital recording of a
EMD horn. The horn sound can be activated anytime the engine is in forward or reverse by
pressing the whistle button on your transformer. The horn will continue to blow as long as
the whistle button is depressed.
The horn will not function in RESET and must be
configured through a RESET option to allow the horn to work when the engine is in neutral.
See page 17 for information on horn programming in the Using RESET To Program
ProtoSounds™ section of this manual.
BELL OPERATION
Your EMD F40PH ProtoSound-equipped engine is equipped with a digital recording of an
actual EMD bell. The bell can be turned on or off with any separate bell button, like the
Lionel® Railsounds™ No. 5906 Bell Button, by simply pushing the button. If you don’t have
a separate bell button, the bell can be controlled through your transformer’s whistle button
whenever the engine is in NEUTRAL. The bell will never ring continuously in RESET
(Remember NEUTRAL is the state between Forward and Reverse). Once the bell is turned
on, it will continue to ring when the engine is cycled into forward or reverse until you press
the bell button or re-enter NEUTRAL and turn the bell off with the whistle button.
In fact, because of ProtoSounds™ state-of-the-art design, the microprocessor
remembers its last command. Therefore, unless you turn the bell off before you quit
running your train, the next time you run the engine, the bell will come on. No matter
whether you come back an hour later or a year later, the bell will begin chiming once the
engine enters one of the three directional states.
To turn the bell on using the transformer’s whistle button, turn on power to the track and
cycle the engine into NEUTRAL. Turn the throttle to 8 volts or less (any higher voltage will
arm the ProtoCoupler) and press the whistle button. The bell should begin chiming. To turn
the bell off, press the whistle button again. If you want to keep the bell on while running the
engine, simply interrupt the power with the transformer throttle or the transformer
directional switch and enter forward or reverse.
