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E8 Operating Manual
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.
PROTO-COUPLER™ OPERATION
Your MTH E-8 ProtoSound-equipped locomotive has two coil-wound
ProtoCouplers™ for remote uncoupling action. The couplers are mounted
on the power trucks. Because the ProtoCoupler is controlled through
ProtoSound’s microprocessor, it doesn’t require an uncoupling track section
or modification to your layout to function. The three simple steps below
are required to operate the coupler.
1. Put your engine in NEUTRAL and turn the throttle all the way up.
2. Press the transformer whistle button to “Arm" the coupler. (You
will hear a “Clank")
3. After arming the coupler, press the whistle button again to open
the coupler.
When the knuckle fires
open you will hear the buzzing
of the coil energizing and the
sound of the air lines coming
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Put Engine In Neutral
At Full Power
Press & Release
The Whistle Button
Press & Release
The Whistle Button
Listen For The
Ca-Clunk Sound
See The Coupler Open
And Listen For The
Cha-Chusshh Sound
