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Mine have all been 8 ohm .2 or .5 speakers.

What version of RS Commander is it?

The sound commander is a different animal than the railsounds commander.

16ohm will work but reduce volume. I'd swap it for an 8ohm speaker around 50mm in diameter.

When were the sound commanders offered?  This is the first I have heard of one. Thanks.

Are these the early sound boards like for the beep and NW2?

This is a Sound Commander that was purchased after Sunset  acquired ERR, it's labeled ver.  4. I called Ed Goldin and he verified it should be 8 ohm, thanks to all who chimed in here.

Ray

@Ron_S posted:

When were the sound commanders offered?  This is the first I have heard of one. Thanks.

Are these the early sound boards like for the beep and NW2?

Sound commanders were the initial sound systems offered by ERR before they got the permission to use Railsounds. The sound files came from a third party, that I do not remember. Some name like green frog comes to mind, but it has been 14 years since I worked there. Sounds were artificially created, rather than being recordings of actual locomotives.

Rudy might know, or they may have been offered before his time at ERR.

I told Jon at the time that the sound commander was not rich in audio quality. A few years later, ERR started offering Lionel railsounds and called it railsounds commander.

@RoyBoy  Thanks for that info Roy.  I went through my pile of ERR pouches, and found a Beep 2.0 and NW2 commander kit.  They are quite a small footprint.

They were included in a lot of ERR items I recently bought and I didn't pay attention to them, no beep or NW or similar switchers.

It is interesting to learn about the early offerings, and I really like the RS4, by having the ability to put any RS4 board on it, it is very universal.

Atlas models had a speaker that was very small but relatively good quality, used in their SW series, a 1 watt, 8 ohm, speaker that mounted in the fuel tank.

There are often high quality speakers around that size in headphones.  If you or someone you know has a pair of headphones with one blown speaker maybe you can use the other.

John