QUOTE (simonj @ 19 Feb 2008, 10:45)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well I read through your review and have just had the central bodywork off to see whats inside and how much space. I couldn't see a NEM socket, where your chip is on the circuit board, there is a smaller chip on mine , but no wires coming off it.(is this a connector that is just placed in the NEM socket so the loco will run on DC?). I measured the internal width of the body ends and its narrower than the 0.91 of an inch that the standard loksound speaker is. Its about 21mm or so. I didn't take them off to see if a speaker would fit in arranged vertically. My version is the recently released weathered version, the paper in the box says try not to handle the loco too much as the weathered paintwork may come off.
thanks
This is the loco with the decoder in the socket. Before this is installed there will be a blanking plug which needs to be removed. This enables the loco to run on DC.
Looking at this picture there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of room for a speaker. I would have to take it apart to check thoroughly though as there is often a way. Its a while since I looked inside this so I can't remember off hand how much space there was.