03-12-2011, 09:11 PM
Gary S Wrote:Great thread, thanks for sharing. You did a mighty fine job on those installs. I've got a sound decoder to install in an Athearn CF7, but haven't gotten up the nerve or motivation to do it yet.
Thanks Gary! I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out.
Actually, the hardest part of custom installs is building an enclosure for the speaker. Using a speaker like the Railflyer Prototypes one will make it very easy to put sound in your CF7. You can plug a Soundtraxx TSU-1000 (the original one) directly into the board (that takes care of motor and pickups and lights) and solder the speaker wires up, tuck everything inside and away you go!