William's Diesel Plays Weird Music?

well, you can ask to R2D2.....
sorry I can't resist......=-)
Honestly I am not sure but could be a bad contact.
Andre.

Maybe you can tell everyone that it is a Williams Shatner special.Beem me up Scotty

David

Mike

I stopped the engine and restarted it. It works normal now. It may be some internal programming language that crossed into the sound circuit. I wonder if my 50 cycle electricity is screwing things up?

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well, you can ask to R2D2.....

actually it's C3P0. The R2 unit doesn't convert code to the english language

I don't know about that engine but some times the techs that design and make these things add funny things that they use for testing or just playing around. They are never meant to show up in the real world but a stray spike or other strange happening can cause them to show up. No problem when it happens, just turn it off and on or otherwise reset it and you will probably never see it again. We had an engine that started ringing just like a telephone once. Never did figure out how to answer it.
Al

I have a SD90 that does that sometimes, usually as a result of trying to blow horn at low speed. The true blast 2 board needs about 8 volts to work correctly everytime. The loco starts moving at about 3 volts though and by 8 is really hi-balling!

My Williams GP38 will make these sounds, once in a great while on startup.

Your engine is picking up the Chinese Microphone used to snoop on your business!

That is very odd, I have many WBB and I've never heard that. Bill are you 50 or 60 hz mains in China?

An R2 unit, Definitely an R2 unit.

My WBB GP38 did that a few times before I series-wired it. In my case I think it was from trying to activate the horn at a low voltage. Whatever it was, it freaked me out.

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Originally posted by CandO:
My Williams GP38 will make these sounds, once in a great while on startup.

Mine too!

Scott

It's cool that you got it on camara!

Scott

Sounds like your engine is into techno.

John

Good beat. Easy to dance to. I give it a 73...

Reminds me of the sounds a modem makes when its handshaking on startup to make a connection to another. Interesting. Of course its probably just random triggering of the sound chip by spurious signals. If it plays the same sound sequence every time though you might could see if inputting that sequence opens up the recording instruction? Only for geeks with too much time on their hands and nothing better to do!

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Originally posted by zhyachts:
Mike

I stopped the engine and restarted it. It works normal now. It may be some internal programming language that crossed into the sound circuit. I wonder if my 50 cycle electricity is screwing things up?

I am no expert in this field but thje 50 cycle electricity could be a factor.

My 'new' Williams Hudson had similiar sounds.Actually it was or sounded 'neat' for a UFO.Sent it back for replacement. An irony,one of the guys in our modular group has a UFO crash landing site,he wanted this sound bad.This sound would havebeen perfect but Williams wanted it back,untouched. Anyone know how to mimic this 'outer space' sound? Bob

I have a Williams Metroliner that did this while I was filming it:


It's probably just a bug in the True-Blast board programming. (there is another powered unit in the train, which is why you hear a normal horn behind the "R2D2" sound)

---PCJ

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I wonder if my 50 cycle electricity is screwing things up?

Probably!

it is a thing with the Tru Blast Boards
I have a Girls Steam engine/ A girls GG1/ and a Sp 4-8-4/ And all of these engines have done this at one time or another sometimes a few times it is almost like the sound file gets scrambled.

I am here in the state of Maryland using a post war ZW/ This has also happened with an MTH z-1000 Transformer/ a K-line Super Chief 120 watt Transformer.
Not sure why this happens but it does happen.