D&J RailRoad
Professor of HO
I recently bought this Broadway Limited EMD E8 set of two As and a B unit. Running them on my layout brought back the forgotten problems of the QSI decoders. Seems that any little glitch in the DCC signal would cause these to stop and reboot then proceed. Pretty aggravating when doing an op session.
I decided to swap out the QSI decoders with the ESU #58420 sound decoder. This unit is the first one through the trial and error of the swap.
The biggest problem was getting the LED headlights and number board lights working on independent outputs of the decoder.
After the install, I logged onto the ESU project page and downloaded a project file for the EMD E8 and loaded that to the decoder using my LokProggrammer. The prototype horn is a single tone, sorta like a tug boat, but I replaced that with a Leslie RS3L sound.
I decided to swap out the QSI decoders with the ESU #58420 sound decoder. This unit is the first one through the trial and error of the swap.
The biggest problem was getting the LED headlights and number board lights working on independent outputs of the decoder.
After the install, I logged onto the ESU project page and downloaded a project file for the EMD E8 and loaded that to the decoder using my LokProggrammer. The prototype horn is a single tone, sorta like a tug boat, but I replaced that with a Leslie RS3L sound.