tankist
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so i got an engine with said system in a trade with member on this forum. (thanks again, buddy!). those who own these decoders will not read anything new here (and probbaly chuckle "oh yeah, he gets now") but here is my impression. while QSI is noticeably lighter on base then BLI sound equipped engines, the functionality is several steps above.
Dynamic brakes - they will not start unless the engine is above certain speed, and will stop as soon as engine slows down to point where they no longer efficient. meaning that engineer navigating down the slope with dynamic brakes on, will not need to bother shutting them off manually as he reaches the bottom. (i would think most people probably know what dynamic brakes are)
3 states of shutdown. i absolutely love that instead of shutting the engine completely i can leave it on low idle. and when on low idle (or completely shut down) the engine will not respond to any engine commands - flicking the throttle by mistake will not move it until start-up sequence is complete.sound of doors closing when engineer leaves or enters the cold engine is a bonus. there s also a mode with high idle engine disconnect (sound of revving engine while the loco stays put) but i'm not sure where that would be used
Engine labor acceleration momentum is required and feature works best with a considerable setting. wile just playing back power notches and transition from one notch to another is nice, this decoder will produce sounds of laboring engine as it accelerates to set notch and usual cruise sound as it actually reaches it.
Air Brake !!! can be experienced best with deceleration momentum set to large value. as the engine decelerates at set momentum, enabling air-brake besides turning on the sound of released air, will actually increase braking effort. proportionally even! meaning that the longer the air brake was was enabled the faster engine will stop (as if it actually released more air ). the sound of screeching brakes as the engine is near stop comes on automatically and stops just before the engine actually stops
audio CV readback with the extra power needed to program the engine it can only be programmed in OP mode meaning that normally one will not be able to read CV values from decoder - as if programming blindly. so to confirm value assignment engine actually announces it in spoken words. it even has function to announce vocally values of any other CV of choice. what a save of situation!
i love the fact one can ask the engine to announce its ID and consist ID.
manual says it should also announce its scale speed while moving but for some reason that feature i could not turn on yet. time to download QSI manual
some other smaller neat surprises are there as well.
so, while expensive, QSI system is simply mind-blowing.
ADD:
so to liven this post a bit below is a picture of the engine boasting the system
(never emagined atlases are quiet to the point of less then whisper quiet), enjoy
Dynamic brakes - they will not start unless the engine is above certain speed, and will stop as soon as engine slows down to point where they no longer efficient. meaning that engineer navigating down the slope with dynamic brakes on, will not need to bother shutting them off manually as he reaches the bottom. (i would think most people probably know what dynamic brakes are)
3 states of shutdown. i absolutely love that instead of shutting the engine completely i can leave it on low idle. and when on low idle (or completely shut down) the engine will not respond to any engine commands - flicking the throttle by mistake will not move it until start-up sequence is complete.sound of doors closing when engineer leaves or enters the cold engine is a bonus. there s also a mode with high idle engine disconnect (sound of revving engine while the loco stays put) but i'm not sure where that would be used
Engine labor acceleration momentum is required and feature works best with a considerable setting. wile just playing back power notches and transition from one notch to another is nice, this decoder will produce sounds of laboring engine as it accelerates to set notch and usual cruise sound as it actually reaches it.
Air Brake !!! can be experienced best with deceleration momentum set to large value. as the engine decelerates at set momentum, enabling air-brake besides turning on the sound of released air, will actually increase braking effort. proportionally even! meaning that the longer the air brake was was enabled the faster engine will stop (as if it actually released more air ). the sound of screeching brakes as the engine is near stop comes on automatically and stops just before the engine actually stops
audio CV readback with the extra power needed to program the engine it can only be programmed in OP mode meaning that normally one will not be able to read CV values from decoder - as if programming blindly. so to confirm value assignment engine actually announces it in spoken words. it even has function to announce vocally values of any other CV of choice. what a save of situation!
i love the fact one can ask the engine to announce its ID and consist ID.
manual says it should also announce its scale speed while moving but for some reason that feature i could not turn on yet. time to download QSI manual
some other smaller neat surprises are there as well.
so, while expensive, QSI system is simply mind-blowing.
ADD:
so to liven this post a bit below is a picture of the engine boasting the system
(never emagined atlases are quiet to the point of less then whisper quiet), enjoy
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