I test ran my first PS3.0 steam locomotive last night and it seems MTH has made improvements in steam chuffing and whistle effects - the chuffing was more deep sounding. The PRR banshee whistle had a background tone to it, like a 2-tone effect, but I don't think this was true quilling. Is there a way to actually quill the whistle? I have the latest software upgraded - 4.31.
BTW: Three of my PS2.0 steamers sound anemic - despite increasing volume - is this a sign that the batteries are depleted?
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If you engine has quillable whistle function you will see a SPW soft key on the screen. Press the soft key under the SPW and it will highlight. At that point the thumbwheel becomes the whistle control and as you roll it, it will effect whistle. If you press thumbwheel you get speed control and press again to go back to whistle.
When you press softkey again the SPW un-highlights and the thumbwheel reverts to normal, and the normal whistle button activates normal whistle.
As far as PS-2, if the volume starts loud then steps down to half volume, yes the battery could be bad. Try charging with MTH charger. If no improvement, replace.
If just overall anemic, maybe a bad speaker this is assuming it sounded better before and now is degraded. Otherwise may be normal. G
Softkey, I should've known.
On replacing batteries, are you supposed to charge them before installing in engine? I have two new MTH Ni-Cads in packages, but no instructions on whether to charge first.
Thanks.
You can won't hurt. G
What's odd about the sounds is that when the engines come up in conventional mode the sounds are loud, but as soon as I address the engine in command they become anemic, despite DCS settings at 100% full volume.
Same here, convential mode accelerating gives a deep cuff vs lighter chuff in command mode. I can't get the deeper chuff in command mode and I have the auto chuff set to on.
Do a feature and then factory reset, see if that works? G
GGG I have the new triplex steam engine does the quill whistle work the same way as you described earlier? Alan
It should
Thanks GGG
alan
I followed GGG's instructions and the quilling whistle works! It's a good effect, although I'd prefer if I didn't have to scroll between SPW to activate it.
Regarding weak sounds - I did a feature reset also as GGG suggested on the PS2.0 steamers and that did the trick - they're back in operation with robust sounds again.
As I am using DCS again the familiarity with the system is slowly coming back to me.
I thought all ps2 and ps3 has this feature?
Joe Gozzo
2008 was the first PS2 engine to feature the quillable whistle using DCS. Earlier ones could only play different whistle sounds by holding down on the whistle button longer, but were not controlled by the operator as is the case with the quillable one.
It is, IMHO, much easier to operate the Quillable Whistle from the Wifi Ap. It works well with both PS2/PS3 and Legacy quillable whistles.
Do the PS3 upgrade kits purchased in the last 2-3 years have the quillable whistle feature?
The board is capable, but you have to have the sound and chain files that support it. I haven't tried to enable the quillable whistle on an upgrade yet, but I believe that GGG has.
I guess it's just as well that my locos don't have it. It seems that feature would put additional wear and tear on the thumbwheel, which we all know is the weak link on the DCS remote.
John
John, the reason I've never bothered with it is it's such a PITA to actually use it. I have a couple of MTH steamers that have the quillable whistle, but after seeing the kludgy operation, I don't bother.
All PS-3 and PS-32 have the code capability to do quillable whistle. You just need to load the correct sound file that has it. Typically PS-3 Premier engines. G
I know this is an old thread but I'm hopeful that I will still get an answer (?). GGG states above:
"All PS-3 and PS-32 have the code capability to do quillable whistle. "
I am a relative newcomer to MTH engines so I'm not sure if the aforementioned 'PS-32' is a typo and was intended to read 'PS-2' or 'PS-32' is just something I
have not heard about yet ? Thank you in advance !
PS32 is the PS/3 board with a custom top board with PS/2 connectors. It's made to replace dead PS/2 boards, and it has PS/3 capabilities, or at least some of them. One of it's capabilities is the quilling whistle.
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