Installing Bluerail and an ESU Loksound DCC decoder into an MTH Railking Genesis

Awesome job! 

The main advantage of the BlueRailDCC+DCC decoder combo was that it would run off AC as well as DC. My installation of this combo in a RS-3 was used to check this out.

I can certainly tell the difference between the two videos.  Excellent job!

@DashingDanLIRR posted:

Hi All,

Figured I'd share a small project I did over the weekend to install an ESU loksound decoder into a 3 rail o scale engine.

If you dont want to read the long post I'll leave the before and after video links here:

Before (RK PS1 sounds): https://youtu.be/pwD-l0ldOjY

After (ESU Loksound 5L sounds): https://youtu.be/5qmXSeCofT8

I am a big fan of the genesis engine:

Unfortunately even with all the Genesis engines MTH and Atlas made, I'm not happy with the compressor sounds versus the more accurate sounds (in my opinion) found in HO, but I also wanted the ability to add my own custom sounds, and to be able to run it on DCS/Legacy signals without having to flip a bunch of switches to isolate loops, that brought me to bluerail.

The overall connections would be track to bluerail, bluerail to ESU Loksound 5 L, and then I would control that engine via a bluetooth app.

The installation was fairly easy:

AC power from the tracks goes directly into the bluerail board, then DCC out from the bluerail boards goes to the ESU loksound decoder adapter board (the capacitor on the bluerail board is required for it to be used on transformers with an AC chopped sine wave, my test bench is a Z1000)

Bluerail board:

Loksound 5 L adapter board:

Took the default ESU genesis sound file, tweaked it a bit to up the sound volume and added one of the old MTH announcements in there (I'll have to play with the announcements more in the future to see if i can program in a full sequence):

Hi great job, not my cup of tea…….but fantastic all the same!