Programming ESU Loksound in an Athearn Genesis SD60E
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ธ.ค. 2019
- This video covers the downloading and installing the sound file onto your ESU Loksound decoder for the Athearn Genesis SD60E, as well as some basic programming changes to get your locomotive up and rolling! There is even information for modelers who do not own an ESU Programmer. Thanks for watching! SKIP TO TIME STAMP 24:55 TO SEE THIS ON LAYOUT!
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Awesome video. I learned a lot from your video. Loksound is now my favorite decoder because of Scaletrains. Now I want to convert all of my Athearn locomotives to Loksound decoders. Your locomotive sounds and looks great. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! And thank you so much!
Always appreciate your videos, especially those of us new to the MR hobby!
Another life saver Deryk. Getting ready to install V5's in a couple of these. Almost purchased a few dual sugar cube kits for them. As always I appreciate your videos, John
Great to hear! Glad I could help. Try the auto tune function first. You might not have to do everything I did in this video. The auto tune doesn't always work.
Hey Deryk, thanks for the how to vid, seems easy enough to change values on the decoders. Never tried before but now I feel a bit more comfortable after seeing how it works,. Thanks again
The Lokprogrammer is really nice. Worthwhile investment if you are going to use ESU decoders. Thanks!
Great video... I have been considering upgrading to locsound Both videos were extremely helpful!!
Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful!
I really like this; always been a fan of trains and couldn't quite figure out how to go about expressing it. I don't think I have the patience to do a full layout as of now, but maybe simulate a piece of mainline with minor scenery and a couple of sidings to run the power around the train. The NS trains where I live on the Pulaski district have gotten increasingly heavier and longer (DPUs are showing up on mixed freights and the occasional coal or oil can comes through.) Not the steepest grades through this little town, but the trackage slows them down and they're usually pulling pretty hard and slow... quite impressive to see a train such as an intermodal, which generally is a quick freight, work that hard with so much motive power to maintain I'm guessing around 20 mph. Now, to the modeling; my mechanical engineering mind has just told me after this video "one can have that much control over these models? I can literally make them behave how I personally want?" I think I would have just as much fun laying some basic track and working with the locomotives to get them operational as prototypically accurate.
Wow.. freakin awesome.. you are the best buddy.. thanks for sharing and keep up the great work.. Lance
Thanks Lance!
Very informative Deryk
Thanks james!
Going for the same installation package on my NS #6963.
Is there an industry standard on what function keys, make a particular action happen? Or is it just up to the user? Also, do you have a video explaining back EMF. For some reason I cant wrap my head around it!
Just picked up 5 Lok5's and my retailer installed the sound file for me. reading thru the instructions there is a way to preset back emf settings as long as your test track has the room to let it do its run. but i'm using JMRI and a DCC++ system, so it's still a bit of a learning curve for me. looking into a lokprogramer but us mac users are still left behind in the app for it..
The auto program feature didn't quite get it where it needed to be. You can certainly try it though. Good luck man!
Have you tried the auto tune feature related to the motor parameters? Just get a few feets of track, set CV 54 to 0, leave programming mode and hit F1. The locomotive will now run in one direction for a few seconds. When it stops again, the decoder has optimized the engine parameters. Just use ESU LokSound or LokPilot 4 and later
Yes, it didn't quite get the loco to where it needed to be. To be honest if you are able to program it, you can get better results on your own.
Man that sure did help me out
Good! That's was the purpose of the video. :)
You try speed matching with momentum between a loksound 5, and loksound select/direct ? Seems way off, and is very painful.
I haven't done that yet, not far from it though. Thanks for the heads up.
Hey Deryk I have 2 Athearn Genesis SD60E trains one is the first responders train and the other is the honor our troops and i am getting a steamed Locomotive i think its a T1 from Broadway limited all 3 are DCC but towards XMAS i will use the steam engine and i was wondering do you know if it will be easy for me to put a LOK sound decoder in it i have to still get the programer so i can put a few xmas songs on the decoder is it worth me doing that if i want to put xmas tunes on my steam engine or is there another way thanks
I have no experience with putting custom sounds on ESU decoders. Sorry I am not any help for you. Not sure who does that, to even give you a recommendation
I've had the auto CV-54 config kill some units. It turns CV-53 down way too much in some cases.
I don't like doing the "auto tune" feature. It never gets the settings right for me.
What's the other little device you have in your Lok Programmer setup and is it needed to program the locomotives? Also what speaker did you put in the locomotive if I may ask?
What other device are you referring to? And the speaker is a TCS WOW 28mm
@@DGModelworks Was on top of where you plug in your NCE Throttle.
@@andybenfer5292 OH...that's the ESU decoder tester. no you do not need that. That's for testing decoders outside the locomotive.
@@DGModelworks Ah ok thanks for the help.
I am picking up a Athearn Genesis ES 44 I'm wondering is there any DCC decoder that's just plug and play for just the lights to operate without you needing a program. I'm not worried about one with sound. Also what decoder would you suggest.
Well if its the new ES44 there is no way to avoid programming if you want the lights to function correctly. You need to program or change CV's to get the lights on the correct function of the decoder. No matter what brand decoder you buy.
@@DGModelworks Thank you for the information and quick response.
@@dzgtnbz3680 No problem. I assumed you didn't want to do any programming or CV changes.
@@DGModelworks I don't. I just thought it was plug and play.
I’m think about getting one RN and it’s so ugly but so interesting