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RailKing PCC Street Car Operating Manual
when you first enter RESET, then slowly turn the transformer throttle to the
off position and then back on again to enter the forward phase. Interrupting
the power too quickly may cause the system to re-enter RESET (signaled by
two dings of the bell). Should this happen, wait longer before interrupting
the power to enter the Forward phase.
ProtoSounds® comes with several programmable functions, including
Engine Volume Adjustment, Separate Bell Button Operation
(pre-programmed at the factory), and Horn-In-Neutral Operation. Each of
these features are described in more detail later. You will notice that when
in RESET, your car will not respond to the whistle button with a horn blast
or continuous bell ringing. In fact, when in RESET and the whistle button
is depressed, only one single bell chime will be heard each time the whistle
button is pressed. If you don’t want to configure or change your car using
any of these programmable features, simply leave RESET after waiting 2.2
seconds by interrupting the power to put the car in forward. After you leave
RESET, your car will operate normally in all the direction states of forward,
neutral and reverse.
HORN OPERATION
Your RailKing ProtoSound® equipped street car features a digital
recording of a PCC horn. The horn sound can be activated anytime the car
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 car is in neutral. See
page 16 for information on horn programming in the
Using RESET To
Program ProtoSounds®
section of this manual.
BELL OPERATION
Your RailKing ProtoSound® equipped PCC Street Car features a digital
recording of an actual PCC bell. Unlike previous versions of
ProtoSounds®, 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 car 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 car is cycled into forward or
