Upgrade Lionel 6-18323 to ERR Cruise Lite

Bruce,

Electric Railroad manufacture a Sound Converter board for this purpose. Check out their web site. http://www.electricrr.com/

I have not used/installed one or a Cruise Lite. So you would need to check the Cruise Lite will work with the Sound Converter.  I don't see any reason why it would not work from scanning the manual.

I am sure some of the other guys on the forum will chime in.

Nick

Bruce and Nick,

I have done the install of the Sound Converter in one of my Flyonel S gauge passenger sets. This set has a Railsounds B-unit. I had previously converted the A-unit with the Cruise Lite and wanted TMCC/Legacy control on the conventional Railsounds. This board will work with the Cruise Lite but I am not sure if it will control your horn and bell but I would think if they were triggered by controls on your transformer which, I believe trigger a dc offset on the rails, it should work. These sound converters are not to expensive, $25.00, so it might be well worth the try. I would think these 
Sound Converters will work with any of ERRs' motor driver boards, I am going to attempt one in conjunction with a Mini Commander 2 in the future.

Ray

Nick12DMC posted:

Bruce,

Electric Railroad manufacture a Sound Converter board for this purpose. Check out their web site. http://www.electricrr.com/

I have not used/installed one or a Cruise Lite. So you would need to check the Cruise Lite will work with the Sound Converter.  I don't see any reason why it would not work from scanning the manual.

I am sure some of the other guys on the forum will chime in.

Nick

Ken at ERR did not mention the sound converter as a possible solution however it might serve the purpose.  I'll see what he has to say today if I can reach him.  When I spoke with him he said they were swamped so I guess a lot of folks are converting their older engines to cruise and / or command.  Thanks for the suggestion!

Bruce

While you can use the Sound Converter, I'd probably just go a bit more and get full sounds with the RailSounds Commander.  I've used the Sound Converter for other purposes, and it'll work fine with the CC-Lite if you go that way.

Rayin"S" posted:

Bruce and Nick,

I have done the install of the Sound Converter in one of my Flyonel S gauge passenger sets. This set has a Railsounds B-unit. I had previously converted the A-unit with the Cruise Lite and wanted TMCC/Legacy control on the conventional Railsounds. This board will work with the Cruise Lite but I am not sure if it will control your horn and bell but I would think if they were triggered by controls on your transformer which, I believe trigger a dc offset on the rails, it should work. These sound converters are not to expensive, $25.00, so it might be well worth the try. I would think these 
Sound Converters will work with any of ERRs' motor driver boards, I am going to attempt one in conjunction with a Mini Commander 2 in the future.

Ray

Thanks for the reply.  As this engine did not come with RS it is possible that the horn / bell board is simply triggered by the dc offset.  I'll look at that angle.  I haven't tried any connections yet as I wanted to see if anyone had experience with this modification.  

As a side note the Mini Commander 2 is the same board as the Lionel RCDR board I am replacing. Lionel has used it an a number or their engines.  Should work well for your application and now that you've got me thinking (danger),  I may have a use for it in a B unit conversion.

Good luck!

Bruce

gunrunnerjohn posted:

While you can use the Sound Converter, I'd probably just go a bit more and get full sounds with the RailSounds Commander.  I've used the Sound Converter for other purposes, and it'll work fine with the CC-Lite if you go that way.

Thanks John.  I am aware of that option. I just hate the sound of the GG-1 horn.  Sounds like a wounded sheep.  I don't see other electric options on the ERR site.  I have a Dash-8-9 board on hand and can use that.  I can turn the diesel background railsounds down.  Appreciate the reply.

BruceT47 posted:

I just hate the sound of the GG-1 horn.  Sounds like a wounded sheep.

But...but... that's what it really sounds like.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

BruceT47 posted:

I just hate the sound of the GG-1 horn.  Sounds like a wounded sheep.

But...but... that's what it really sounds like.

Yes.  One of the main reasons I don't own a modern GG-1.  

Lionel does have a RS 5.5 board / 691RS5506B  for their later HHP-8.  May look into that if I'm not pleased with other options.

Bruce

I have the HHP-8 with that board.  However, you can't buy that board without a trade-in, anything RS5 or later is not available without returning a defective matching board.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

I have the HHP-8 with that board.  However, you can't buy that board without a trade-in, anything RS5 or later is not available without returning a defective matching board.

You're not helping!  

Bruce

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