Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
Further to my other thread on where to put the speaker when installing sound into my new (well, new to me, but secondhand) LGB Heidi, here's what I finally decided to do....
First, rather than using the Massoth ultra-thin speaker - which fitted in the aperture but then wouldn't allow the cover plate to fit - I decided to use a 40mm one instead; this fitted much more neatly on top of the cover plate, so what was need was some 'oles for the noise to come out of. Out came the trusty [strike]shotgun[/strike] dremel, and we now have one plate filled with noise 'oles.....
The plate was then returned to its designed location:
...and the speaker fixed in place with a bit of white-tack (you know the stuff, like blu-tack only it's...er...white). Finally the S module was mounted on the front of the weight with the double-sided sticky pad that comes with the unit, the speaker cable was plugged into the S and the two power feeds for the sound unit (the brown and white wires) attached to the two track power pins provided right in the middle of the LGB onboard loco decoder. Screw it all back together, bung it on the track and lo, it works!
The nice thing about this install is that the only irreversible thing I've done to the loco is to drill the sound holes in the plate - I haven't had to cut up or modify anything else.
Jon.
First, rather than using the Massoth ultra-thin speaker - which fitted in the aperture but then wouldn't allow the cover plate to fit - I decided to use a 40mm one instead; this fitted much more neatly on top of the cover plate, so what was need was some 'oles for the noise to come out of. Out came the trusty [strike]shotgun[/strike] dremel, and we now have one plate filled with noise 'oles.....
The plate was then returned to its designed location:
...and the speaker fixed in place with a bit of white-tack (you know the stuff, like blu-tack only it's...er...white). Finally the S module was mounted on the front of the weight with the double-sided sticky pad that comes with the unit, the speaker cable was plugged into the S and the two power feeds for the sound unit (the brown and white wires) attached to the two track power pins provided right in the middle of the LGB onboard loco decoder. Screw it all back together, bung it on the track and lo, it works!
The nice thing about this install is that the only irreversible thing I've done to the loco is to drill the sound holes in the plate - I haven't had to cut up or modify anything else.
Jon.
