Returning from York, I saw a vendor who had done a whistle smoke upgrade to an o gauge MTH triplex. The smoke intensity would actually change when the whistle tone changed. This was still an engine that appeared to be under DCS control. How is this done? I have some familiarity with the PS2 board as I have done 6 or so successful PS2 steam engine upgrade kits. Can this be done with the 3V PS2 board?
Mike
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Very interesting.
I love these cottage industry businesses and they show so much cleverness, ingenuity and hard work. More power to them!
This is what America is all about.
I have shifted my O scale buying to Lionel Legacy Steam due to steam effects. IF MTH follows suit and make these effects available on their steam engine, then I'd go back to MTH. they have better scale details IMHO... 
I have to join their site?
Nothing works, and the site demands I "join" to look at products?
No thanks.
MTH Did this with an aux board in the 1 Gauge Triplex back many years ago. It is coming with the new PS-3 Big Boy.
My under standing is that the early ones where a little bit of trickery. The whistle steam effect was really done conventionally with an offset. Not via DCS control.
He may have added the circuit board MTH used in the #1 Triplex, or... it is still a Conventional effect but maybe a circuit board doing this.
PS-2 really has a lot of capability because of the 2 way talk. Think of the Coors set were doors and smoke are activated remotely via 2 way talk. Or GG-1 pantograph operation, though that is wired communication via an additional circuit board. G
I have to join their site?
Nothing works, and the site demands I "join" to look at products?
No thanks.
I have to join their site?
Nothing works, and the site demands I "join" to look at products?
No thanks.
No, you don't have to join. You just have to enable Flash, which is an Adobe product that the site uses. Flash is free.
in their videos, the combined effects look a little heavy handed. output from smoke units doesn't always show a good representation of the various types of steam vented from pop valves, whistles, cylinder cocks or blowdown valves.
I saw this engine at JDS' booth at the show. It looked to be extremely well done and the smoke reflected the quilling whistle very well.
Everything was fresh, update, scans, etc., and I don't get the "join" screen now.
The other problem is the site designer put all the effort into "pretty", not functionality.
Using the most prominent section titled Acusmoke upgrades doesn't lead to anything.
"View more" leads to..well basically nothing.
But I did watch the two videos. Neat
this is their home page:
http://www.jdslimitedproductions.com/#!
the link posted above is the smoke upgrade page that shows the two videos. That's it!
It is a very pretty site, the designer is obviously talented in that respect. I guess I just expected a little more content overall.
The idea is great! But I agree, a bit heavy. Id like to see some of that "pressure" diverted elsewhere too eventually.
Out of curiosity has anyone had experience with the 6-8100 Js that had cylinder smoke? I'm curious if the smoke just "drops" free air, is it pressured by the smoke piston, or was it fan driven. How does it compare to what we've seen in the Acusmoke videos
If I remember right, the J just has tubes from the piston smoke unit that go down to the chest to vent smoke. G
Again, Was this operated with DCS in command mode, or using Remote, but in conventional to trigger the effect. My understanding is, up to this point the engine smoke was triggered with a DC offset in conventional. G
If I remember right, the J just has tubes from the piston smoke unit that go down to the chest to vent smoke. G
You remember correctly, just worked on a couple of these.
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