Stockyard Industrial Lead: Installing a Smart Phone Speaker in an HO Scale Locomotive

[@emillerz]

The episode I posted yesterday had issues with the audio and video syncing, so this fixes that.

[@jaybird111207]

Great how to thanks for sharing. Happy modeling!! -Jason

[@emillerz]

You bet, thanks for watching and happy modeling as well!

[@mrmrlee]

Was just wondering, I run my trains on DC, not DCC and am happy with that except for the lack of engine sounds. Is there any reason why, on a small layout, a person could not just put the sound card and speakers in a hidden location rather than in the loco? You could hook it to a nice stereo and speakers to have nice full engine sounds throughout the room. I have a fleet of over 20 locomotives I cycle through and there's no way I'm getting sound cards in all these locomotives.

[@jcjackson726]

Thank you for the video!

[@XBOXShawn12thman]

Subscribed 😁👍

[@emillerz]

Thanks! 😊

[@csxrensville5105]

Is the Decoder a Tsumai2? I may try this speaker on my GP38. That has the recommended speaker by Soundtraxx, but it doesn't sound quite right.

[@emillerz]

Yep, it's a SoundTraxx Tsunami2. All of my decoders are SoundTraxx. I would definitely give it a try to replace it.

[@Mercatoyd]

seems like a good fix. nice and small..yet, on video plenty of sound.

[@emillerz]

Yes, I have found these to be perfect for having great sound and not taking up much space.

[@neilrogers1571]

Have you tried putting two SQ speakers in series?

[@Nealeb1970]

Yes using 2 in series works really well, but I don't understand why the manufacturers set the volume to max. out of the factory!!! I have damaged a couple of speakers, so now I reduce the volume down to under 100 before I do anything else. I don't have a programing track so as soon as the engine starts on the main I mute and use the CV's to adjust the Master volume (cv128), then use JMRI to do the rest of my programing

[@emillerz]

I have not tried this - I have only used one speaker for each decoder/locomotive.

[@neilrogers1571]

@@emillerz check this website re sound he is considered to produce some of the best boxes for sugar cube speakers he is a sound engineer who also happens to be a railroad modeller www.scalesoundsystems.com/guides

[@emillerz]

@@neilrogers1571 Thanks for the tip on that and the link, looks like some really nice work!

[@majortomtogc]

What controller is that?

[@emillerz]

I think you are referring to the ProtoThrottle that I use - it's made by Iowa Scaled Engineering.

[@carwilef7]

Autozone has 60% tin/40% lead rosin core solder

[@emillerz]

Thanks for the tip!

[@stormshadow5555]

Well, there's nothing louder and that makes more noise than Apple computers incorporated, inc. !!!

[@emillerz]

Sorry for the super late response, I have been taking a break from videos and plan to start up posting again soon. Thanks for the comment!