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50% steam chuffing volume, pushing it a third time will give you 25% steam chuffing volume
and pushing it a fourth time will give you no steam chuffing sounds. The microprocessor will
immediately play the sound level each time the whistle button is pushed so that you can
decide if it is acceptable. You can recycle through the four choices by simply continuing to
press the whistle button.
Once you have decided on the appropriate volume level, turn the transformer throttle off
and on again or press the transformer direction switch to lock in your selection. The volume
adjustment will remain set at the level you have chosen until you change it again.
Regardless of the steam chuffing volume setting, the whistle, bell, steam compressor
pumps and enhanced neutral sounds will function normally. In fact because only the steam
chuffing volume is affected by selections in Feature 6, when you select 0 steam chuffing
volume, you will still hear the compressor sounds when the engine is running. Don’t
confuse these sounds with the steam engine chuffing sounds.
PROGRAMMING FOR A SEPARATE BELL BUTTON CONTROLLER
To operate ProtoSounds with a separate
bell button controller, you will need to wire
up the controller to your transformer and
track as per the instructions in Fig. 8.
Once the bell button is wired, you can use
the bell button to activate the bell in
forward, netural or reverse. If the bell
doesn’t operate and is wired up correctly,
you will need to program the ProtoSound
module to operate with a bell button. To
do this, enter RESET and go to Feature
20. (See the section “Entering RESET
Options" on page 15.) Once in Feature 20, press the whistle button and wait for the module
to sound a bell ding(s). Continue pushing the whistle button until the module plays back one
ding (signifying that the module has been programmed for a bell button). Simply turn the
throttle off and then on again to “Lock-In" the new setting. You can also use Feature 18 to
reset to its original factory (default) setting (separate bell button operation).
PROGRAMMING FOR WHISTLE IN NEUTRAL OPERATION
If you want to blow your whistle when your engine is in neutral, you will need to program
ProtoSounds to do so as the factory setting only allows the whistle to blow in forward or
neutral. To do this, enter RESET and go to Feature 25. (See the section entitled “Entering
RESET Options" on page 15). Once in Feature 25, press the transformer whistle button and
wait for ProtoSounds to sound a bell ding(s). Continue pressing the whistle button until
ProtoSounds sounds two bell dings (signifying that ProtoSounds has been programmed to
sound the whistle in neutral). Turn the throttle off and then on again to “Lock-In" your
selection. Now, whenever you are in neutral, you can blow the whistle with the transformer
whistle button. To reset ProtoSounds to its original factory setting of no whistle in neutral,
PowerTerminal
Wire(black)
CenterRail
Wire(red)
OutsideTrack
Wire(ground)
Figure 8: Wiring Up A Bell Button Controller
