I recently purchased an HO sound equipped Intermountain ES44AC. For past while I've been trying to synchronize this unit with my many non-sound Kato AC4400CWs, so I can run it in a consist, but to no avail. Currently the Intermountain unit is much faster than the Katos and takes off from them.
I printed off the manual for the SoundTraxx Tsunami decoder and have tried a few different things. I've tried adjusting the Vstart, and acceleration rate, both of which provide little results. Then I've tried the different speed curves that have already been programmed in the decoder, and then I even tried creating my own speed curves (and adjusting CV 25 and 29 accordingly), with still nothing really favourable happening. So for a test I set the first 10 speed steps to zero, and the unit still moves right away. Clearly I'm doing something wrong or forgetting a setting. I will admit I haven't had much experience with this, as all my other locos could be speed matched by just adjusting CV2, CV5, and CV6.
I'm using a Digitrax Super Empire Builder with a DT400 throttle.
So has anyone been successful in speed matching a Sound equipped Intermountian ES44AC with a non-sound equipped Kato AC4400s?
I printed off the manual for the SoundTraxx Tsunami decoder and have tried a few different things. I've tried adjusting the Vstart, and acceleration rate, both of which provide little results. Then I've tried the different speed curves that have already been programmed in the decoder, and then I even tried creating my own speed curves (and adjusting CV 25 and 29 accordingly), with still nothing really favourable happening. So for a test I set the first 10 speed steps to zero, and the unit still moves right away. Clearly I'm doing something wrong or forgetting a setting. I will admit I haven't had much experience with this, as all my other locos could be speed matched by just adjusting CV2, CV5, and CV6.
I'm using a Digitrax Super Empire Builder with a DT400 throttle.
So has anyone been successful in speed matching a Sound equipped Intermountian ES44AC with a non-sound equipped Kato AC4400s?