11-08-2010, 10:53 AM
rrinker Wrote:Call me nuts, but wouldn't a micro-Tsunami be a better choice? It's a much smaller decoder but has the same sounds. More room. And the speaker DEFINITELY needs to be sealed with some sort of baffle or enclosure, to get decent sound out of it.
--Randy
I shied away from the Micro Tsunami on some advice from one of the decoder guru's at my LHS. He explained to me that he's installed few of them in different locos and all of them have let the blue smoke out. He has not been impressed with them so far. He sent them all back to Soundtraxx get them warrantied.
That said, still looking at how much room is inside the shell, the Atlas decoder fits in there just fine. It's flat and narrow. With the weight out of the front, I should be able to modify the factory baffle and make it a little slimmer allowing me to slide it right in under the decoder where the weight would be.