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Hi!
I'm about to go completely over to DCC having bought a Dynamis and installed a couple of Lenz standard decoders, but I want to fit sound to some of my steam locos.
Looking at Howes and SWD it seems you can have either the Loksound 3.5v or the Micro. I gather the Micro is intended for N gauge, but as I want to get a decoder in the loco rather than the tender wherever possible (accepting that the speaker will have to go in the tender), is the Micro up to the job of powering , say, a Bachmann Hall, 43xx, Standard 5 or Hornby Black 5, Brit, Grange?
I'm not bothered about the plug as I'll hard-wire and I'm happy enough to cut sections of chassis block away if needed (already done a 43XX split frame) so that the decoder will fit. I want to do this as I don't fancy having permanent fixed wiring between loco and tender. Arranging a 2-pin plug and socket for the speaker seems a much better arrangement, but I don't want to do it only to find that the Micro is short on amps and I should have gone "3.5v in the tender"
I'm about to go completely over to DCC having bought a Dynamis and installed a couple of Lenz standard decoders, but I want to fit sound to some of my steam locos.
Looking at Howes and SWD it seems you can have either the Loksound 3.5v or the Micro. I gather the Micro is intended for N gauge, but as I want to get a decoder in the loco rather than the tender wherever possible (accepting that the speaker will have to go in the tender), is the Micro up to the job of powering , say, a Bachmann Hall, 43xx, Standard 5 or Hornby Black 5, Brit, Grange?
I'm not bothered about the plug as I'll hard-wire and I'm happy enough to cut sections of chassis block away if needed (already done a 43XX split frame) so that the decoder will fit. I want to do this as I don't fancy having permanent fixed wiring between loco and tender. Arranging a 2-pin plug and socket for the speaker seems a much better arrangement, but I don't want to do it only to find that the Micro is short on amps and I should have gone "3.5v in the tender"
