Rail King PCC Street Car Operating Instructions Manual - Trolley Announcements (Tas)
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RailKing PCC Street Car Operating Manual
TROLLEY ANNOUNCEMENTS (TAS)
ProtoSounds® is now equipped with operator controlled trolley
announcement sounds, hereby known as TAS. This easy to use feature
plays digitally reproduced trolley announcements and street action sounds
whenever you activate and stop your PCC car. No additional wires or
modifications are needed on your layout to enjoy these amazing sound
effects, though an option does exist that allows you to completely automate
your trolley run activating the sounds at user specified locations. The
sounds themselves are randomly generated and randomly “shuffled” on the
ProtoSounds software chip. This gives the system the ability to produce
different sounds in a different order each time the TAS feature is enabled.
These different sounds are heard each time you cycle the transformer
throttle from on to off in the same manner that you would cycle the throttle
to enter the various states of forward, neutral and reverse. The entire TAS
sequence is designed to simulate the arrival, disembarking, embarking, and
departure of a PCC stop. The sounds include the PCC driver announcing the
stop and the upcoming stop, passenger disembarking and embarking
sounds, driver to passenger requests, door openings and closing and general
street action sounds. Each is described in more detail in the following
sections.
ACTIVATING TROLLEY SOUNDS
Your ProtoSounds® equipped engine features an operator controlled
trolley announcement sound set that can be activated in one of three ways,
in automatic mode, manual mode or in layout controlled mode. Once
activated, this easy to use feature plays digitally reproduced sounds of a
trolley stop.
Option 1 - Automatic Mode:
If you are using a separate bell button
controller to ring your bell (like the Lionel Railsounds No. 5906 bell
activation button) you can activate the feature by entering forward or
reverse and pressing and holding the bell button for one second at which
time the operator will
hear the driver
announce the next
trolley stop location.
Continued holding of
the bell button will be
Put Engine In
Forward or Reverse
Press & Hold
The Railsounds® Bell Button
For 3 Seconds
Listen For The
Next Stop Announcement
Listen For The
Passenger Dong Sound