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ngdave28:
The steam exhaust sounds good.  Were you able to delete the default diesel sound from LM-2S and then load steam sound from the HC-2?  In other words you didn't have to load steam sound from their website?  Did you select light or heavy steam?

If you want closer chug syncronization, note that there are 4 chugs for each revolution of the driver wheels.

Dave

LW93Rcode:
Thanks guys!

Mel thanks for the info on the water fill.  I still have to add some details and snow under the tree so I'll try and get a shot of that after and maybe make another short vid.

Al, you are definitely right about them being good runners.  I actually picked up two ,NYC 1142 & 1136, for the price of a new one, albeit the new would have been decoder equipped.  I was surprised how well they ran on DC before the install.  I'm not sure if I will install railpro in the other or not.  I'm tempted to try a wow steam in the other.

Dave, yes I did delete the default diesel sound.  I actually took this module out of a previous install in a GP40, so I was deleting the 645 prime mover, which also caused a little problem I didn't foresee.  After deleting all the diesel sounds, I installed both light and heavy steam from the HC-2 after loading them onto the HC-2 from Railpro Assistant(that took forever).  I started with the light steam.  The chuffing wouldn't start right and was making odd sounds. I thought, maybe it didn't download right and switched to heavy steam and it did the same.  Turns out, since I was using a prime mover before, I had the auto compressor sounds enabled, so that was trying to play and just made all the sounds go haywire.  I ended up just leaving it with the heavy steam file and deleted the light In order to install more sounds like the water fill and coal.   I'm not sure what it should have been prototypically, maybe somewhere in between the two?  Also,  thanks for the tip on the 4 chugs, that should help alot. 

-LW

yvesmary:
I think it sounded pretty good, especially the whistle.

Makes me anxious to install the LM-2S in my brass steamers.

Yves
Ponoka, Alta

KPack:
LW - the reason that the steam sounds probably weren't playing correctly when you first loaded them is because you may have kept the diesel prime mover button to play the steam sounds.  If using steam sounds you MUST use the steam locomotive icon to play them.  The steam loco icon is programmed to correctly play the steam sounds.  It allows smooth increases in chuff rate as the throttle increases.  If you accidently use the diesel button nothing will sound right.

Like Dave said there should be 4 chuffs per revolution of the drivers.  I think the chuffs hit at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock positions.  Have the steamer running at a constant speed (not too fast so you can see the rod position on the wheels) and adjust the chuff rate in real time until it hits right where it is supposed to be.  At that point it should be correct through all speeds.

Thanks for posting the video!

-Kevin

LW93Rcode:
Ahhhh, thanks so much for that info Kevin!  I did change the icon at some point and must have not realized thats what made the sound better.  I must have used the incorrect steam icon as well because I never saw a place to adjust the chuff rate in the advanced options!  I just swapped the icon and voila, it came up!  Thanks.  Time for work, but now I can't wait to get home and adjust it!!!!

-LW

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