HEP is Head End Power. It's a passenger train thing, and today it specifically refers to a separate diesel unit used to generate power for the train. The trainmasters predate that era, but they did have a steam heating plant, and there should be a sound for that on your board. The heating plant was inside the short hood. The square vent and hole on the roof are part of that.
Thanks Geoffrey! Always great to get more information shared in a helpful way. I’ll look for the steam heater sounds. The capabilities of the board are pretty amazing.
@@scpvrr does this board have a shut down and start up feature? The tsunami does. I like this feature because the engine is quiet when you power up. And then you can hear it cranking up. Also, if you convert th lights to LED, you can dim them, just like real trains do when in the station. I have a small freight yard on my layout, and I like to dim the light as a run the train past, as per real railroad operating rules. The more you use these boards, the more it becomes like running a real train. When I converted my RS3 over to tsunami. I did like you did with the motors, namely wired them in series. Wiring them in parallel didn't let me go slowly enough. Can't wait to get mine.
Thank you for this excellent video Bill, this is something I would like to try myself. Could you tell us how much the kit was? Also was there much if any soldering involved or were wires attached in a proprietary way? Other than the decoder app to run it and a traditional transformer was anything else needed? Do set the transformer on 18v like a Lionel LionChief? I just acquired an older Williams Trainmaster without any sounds myself, it runs great and had very low use.
Thank you!!! Great questions. The kit was $205 from eBay. There was some soldering such as the motor, ground wire and speaker. The wires all connect to the Blunami board with screw clamps. The rectifier board I used also connected via screw clamps. Blunami runs from 8-24VDC. To run it, I have a traditional ZW275. Then I download the Blunami app from the app store for either Apple or Android.
Did you need to isolate the lights? I recently fitted a tsunami decoder to a Williams RF-16 and I needed to electrically isolate the lights from the chassis.
Does the horn section include a Leslie A200? If so, that's the sound that's more accurate for what this engine already has. Granted, the one you chose sounds nicer, but in real life you wouldn't get that rich a tone from a single chime horn,
First, thanks for watching and commenting. Yes, the A200 is there. As you could tell, I was kinda nerding out on the capabilities, having a good time with my new toy. This is my first well featured command control loco.
@@scpvrr I don't have any Blunami yet, I have several of the earlier Soundtrax units. I'm looking to replace them with Blunami because it takes less hardware to use in 3-rail O scale. I have a later version of that same engine and I was curious about the horn. The real Trainmasters were delivered with the Leslie A200 horn, but some railroads, like the Sourhern Pacific, retro fitted them with multi-chime horns. If you find some horn sounds you like, P&D hobby sells, ir used to sell detail parts for 2-rail that included different kinds of air horn castings. You could make your engine a real conversation piece.
Actually I cannot. I just went on Ali Express and searched for rectifier board. The one I bought is sold out. This one is similar a.aliexpress.com/_mLonF5A
Very nice work Bill! Runs and sounds fantastic now. Definitely something to think about. 🤔 Frank
Thank you so much!
BluNami is really transforming what we can do with command control. Literally any train is fair game, no more having to find MTH this or Lionel that.
That it is. There are limits. For example, dual motored post war F3s draw too much current.
Nice clean install Bill. Thanks for showing features of the app, real simple to use with options. That sound card.......LOUD!
Thanks Ed! That wasn’t even the loudest it could go!
That's awesome! What a great option for us without command systems. Thanks for sharing!
You bet!
HEP is Head End Power. It's a passenger train thing, and today it specifically refers to a separate diesel unit used to generate power for the train.
The trainmasters predate that era, but they did have a steam heating plant, and there should be a sound for that on your board. The heating plant was inside the short hood. The square vent and hole on the roof are part of that.
Thanks Geoffrey! Always great to get more information shared in a helpful way. I’ll look for the steam heater sounds. The capabilities of the board are pretty amazing.
@@scpvrr does this board have a shut down and start up feature? The tsunami does. I like this feature because the engine is quiet when you power up. And then you can hear it cranking up. Also, if you convert th lights to LED, you can dim them, just like real trains do when in the station. I have a small freight yard on my layout, and I like to dim the light as a run the train past, as per real railroad operating rules. The more you use these boards, the more it becomes like running a real train. When I converted my RS3 over to tsunami. I did like you did with the motors, namely wired them in series. Wiring them in parallel didn't let me go slowly enough. Can't wait to get mine.
Awesome work!
Thank you, Carl!
These are well worth the upgrades.
I agree. Very easy, and great features.
this is a cool little channel! keep it up bud!! your very unique
Thanks, will do!
@@scpvrr YAY!!
Thank you for this excellent video Bill, this is something I would like to try myself. Could you tell us how much the kit was? Also was there much if any soldering involved or were wires attached in a proprietary way? Other than the decoder app to run it and a traditional transformer was anything else needed? Do set the transformer on 18v like a Lionel LionChief? I just acquired an older Williams Trainmaster without any sounds myself, it runs great and had very low use.
Thank you!!! Great questions. The kit was $205 from eBay. There was some soldering such as the motor, ground wire and speaker. The wires all connect to the Blunami board with screw clamps. The rectifier board I used also connected via screw clamps. Blunami runs from 8-24VDC. To run it, I have a traditional ZW275. Then I download the Blunami app from the app store for either Apple or Android.
@@scpvrr Thanks for the quick reply Bill.
Wonder If the MTH proto that had the bad boards could be modified with the blunami sound boards.
Absolutely with one caveat: with Blunami you don’t have direct smoke control. You have to “hack” that using one of the extended controls.
Did you need to isolate the lights? I recently fitted a tsunami decoder to a Williams RF-16 and I needed to electrically isolate the lights from the chassis.
I did not. The board controls hot for the lights. There isn’t even a spot on the board for light ground.
So you don’t need the bridge rectifier and e unit anymore correct
Just the speaker, the ac to dc board and the decoder ?
And a speaker, of course. The ac to dc board is a bridge rectifier plus a filtering capacitor.
@@scpvrr do you have a amazon link for the capacitor / rectifier
I got it from Ali Express. JUNY Integrated Circuit Store
a.aliexpress.com/_mNPgbAE
Lionel locomotive's diesel n steam locomotive's are worth investing DCC n Sound technology for the entertainment n for the friends to come see
I agree 100%. That was the beauty of this one -- taking a VERY BASIC engine and making it a modern/cool engine. Thanks for watching!
Does the horn section include a Leslie A200? If so, that's the sound that's more accurate for what this engine already has. Granted, the one you chose sounds nicer, but in real life you wouldn't get that rich a tone from a single chime horn,
First, thanks for watching and commenting. Yes, the A200 is there. As you could tell, I was kinda nerding out on the capabilities, having a good time with my new toy. This is my first well featured command control loco.
@@scpvrr I don't have any Blunami yet, I have several of the earlier Soundtrax units. I'm looking to replace them with Blunami because it takes less hardware to use in 3-rail O scale. I have a later version of that same engine and I was curious about the horn. The real Trainmasters were delivered with the Leslie A200 horn, but some railroads, like the Sourhern Pacific, retro fitted them with multi-chime horns. If you find some horn sounds you like, P&D hobby sells, ir used to sell detail parts for 2-rail that included different kinds of air horn castings. You could make your engine a real conversation piece.
Can you give the part numbers for the part bridge
Actually I cannot. I just went on Ali Express and searched for rectifier board. The one I bought is sold out.
This one is similar
a.aliexpress.com/_mLonF5A
Thanks for the info,I am going to try this in a Williams 44 ton locomotive,I have this in two of my G scale locomotives and I do like it