Help to silence LionChief Thomas sounds

Is it Bluetooth equipped?  Could use the app to turn down the sound.

A product number could help.

@BobbyD,

Follow this link:

      John Deere 0-8-0 Lionchief set - Volume Control (12/5/18) | Allan Miller

Allan describes the process of setting volume on Lionchief.  If you're lucky this will work for your situation.

Mike

The procedure mentioned by @Allan Miller and @Mellow Hudson Mike works for my LionChief Version 1 Thomas set.

Hold down the center-bottom microphone button while turning the speed control fully counter-clockwise.  It will kill the sounds.

Thanks guys, they are working on digging the box back out for the number.

They tried the "reverse while holding the button" Bruce and now it won't run at all. 🤣

Looks like not LionChief.

Not sure if you can adjust the sound on those trains, that is a lionchief Thomas, not Bluetooth.  I have a similar Thomas and if you lift the hood off the cab there are switches to turn off sounds.  Unfortunately, it only eliminates some of the sounds not all of them. 

If they want to get rid of the sounds maybe they can open up the engine and cut the wires to the speaker?

@ArtsModelTrains posted:

Not sure if you can adjust the sound on those trains, that is a lionchief Thomas, not Bluetooth.  I have a similar Thomas and if you lift the hood off the cab there are switches to turn off sounds.  Unfortunately, it only eliminates some of the sounds not all of them.

If they want to get rid of the sounds maybe they can open up the engine and cut the wires to the speaker?

Thanks, their only solution may be to cut the wires. Hopefully they can get it running again. Still cannot believe Lionel didn't install a way to turn the sound off. Said tape over speaker wasn't enough. The poor kid went from looking forward to running the train to not playing with it now. Who designs this stuff?

Is this the set that they have?

Yeah I agree, especially that beep while the lionchief engine is on the powered track with no controller connected.

Following the directions above shouldn't have caused the train not to run. They should check batteries, track power etc all the usual stuff.

I'm going to get my Thomas on the track and see if I can recreate that issue and figure out how to fix it.

@BobbyD posted:

Thanks, their only solution may be to cut the wires. Hopefully they can get it running again. Still cannot believe Lionel didn't install a way to turn the sound off. Said tape over speaker wasn't enough. The poor kid went from looking forward to running the train to not playing with it now. Who designs this stuff?

This version is very old.  The newer ones don't have such issues because they've learned their lessons.

This one's not worth the trouble.

Mike

@ArtsModelTrains posted:

Yeah I agree, especially that beep while the lionchief engine is on the powered track with no controller connected.

That's the one thing that kind of bothers me, too.

@BobbyD posted:

Thanks, their only solution may be to cut the wires. Hopefully they can get it running again. Still cannot believe Lionel didn't install a way to turn the sound off. Said tape over speaker wasn't enough. The poor kid went from looking forward to running the train to not playing with it now. Who designs this stuff?

Take one of the wires from the speaker, and cut it then connect the side going to the PCB to the switch, then the other part of the wire going to the speaker to the other side of the switch.  You may have to extend the wires to do this.

This will allow the switch to turn the sound all the way on/off.

Jim

I had a LionChief set. The volume was way too high. I took some adhesive tape and covered up about 2/3 of the speaker. That made the sound perfect. You could cover the whole speaker if you wanted to.

@Jim Sandman @Larry3railtrains

Those are great ideas! I'm going to try that with my Thomas.

@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:

This version is very old.  The newer ones don't have such issues because they've learned their lessons.

This one's not worth the trouble.

Mike

That's sure not gonna make 'em happy to hear as the solution Mike!😁

@Allan Miller posted:

That's the one thing that kind of bothers me, too.

How about when there are two or three? That constant chirping is mind numbing Alan!

@Jim Sandman posted:

Take one of the wires from the speaker, and cut it then connect the side going to the PCB to the switch, then the other part of the wire going to the speaker to the other side of the switch.  You may have to extend the wires to do this.

This will allow the switch to turn the sound all the way on/off.

Jim

I've passed this on, even if there isn't a local Lionel shop a DCC installer could assist them. Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

@BobbyD posted:

That's sure not gonna make 'em happy to hear as the solution Mike!😁

BoobyD,

I see what you're saying but ...

I assumed this was an attempt to solve the problem for a Christmas Eve or Day run around the tree. Tell me how someone would help fix this problem in time?  There are no good suggestions for a fix in this situation.

@Jim Sandman's suggestion was, and probably still is, the best one for this model, unless the your friend wants to buy a newer edition.  You may have been able to implement it within the time available.

How did it turn out?

Mike