MTHTrains 10-1091-1, Operating Instructions Manual

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MTH 392E Operating Manual
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RESET and wait 2.2 seconds before interrupting the power to put the engine in forward. After
you leave RESET, your engine will operate normally in all the direction states of forward,
neutral and reverse. Remember though, once power is turned off for more than 3 seconds, the
next time power is applied to the track, your engine will be back in RESET.
WHISTLE OPERATION
Your 392E ProtoSound® equipped engine is equipped with a digital recording of a steam
whistle. The whistle sound can be activated anytime the engine is in forward or reverse by
pressing the whistle button on your transformer. The whistle will continue to blow as long as
the whistle button is depressed. The whistle will not function in RESET and must be
configured through a RESET option to allow the whistle to work when the engine is in neutral.
See page 21 for information on whistle programming in the
Using RESET To Program
ProtoSounds®
section of this manual.
BELL OPERATION
Your 392E ProtoSound® equipped engine is equipped with a digital recording of an actual
steam engine 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 and a special
sound effect will sound*) 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.
* If the throttle setting was higher than 8 volts, and a special “ca-clunk” sound was heard
when the whistle button was depressed, you will need to press the whistle button a second time
to clear the special sound effect from memory. This second whistle button push will cause the
sound system to play an air-release sound effect. Once that sound effect is played, check the
throttle setting and make sure it is below 8 volts, then press the whistle button again to activate
the bell sound.