{"id":618,"date":"2015-03-27T21:14:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T02:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2019-01-30T19:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:51:52","slug":"the-heisler-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2015\/03\/27\/the-heisler-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heisler is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in November I wrote a post documenting the new Rivarossi Heisler<\/a> that I’d just acquired.\u00a0 I gave a brief description of the good (and not-so-good) features of the model, and mentioned at the end how I loved the whistle.\u00a0 Well, the whistle turned into a bit of a problem.<\/p>\n

I had noticed that the short whistle sound didn’t seem to match that of the long whistle (there are two buttons that control these sound variations).\u00a0 Reading the instructions, I learned that there were actually six different whistles programmed into the thing, so I set about changing the whistles to see how each sounded.\u00a0 While doing this, I noticed that one of the other whistles seemed to not match sounds between long and short toots as well.\u00a0 After going back and forth, I finally realized that the short whistle sounds of these two whistles were reversed!\u00a0 I wrote Rivarossi about this problem, and they in turn directed me to Matt Herman, who is the General Manager for ESU in North America (the loco uses a LokSound decoder by ESU).\u00a0 Matt advised me to return the locomotive for reprogramming (which I did).\u00a0 Well, it took three and a half months to get the loco back!\u00a0 I suppose the timing couldn’t have been worse with all the things going on at ESU.\u00a0 First there was a Christmas break, then a manpower shortage at the office, then ESU moved to a new building, and finally they hired more people, one of which was assigned to repair things.\u00a0 But it’s here now, it works, and it works correctly . . . so much better!<\/p>\n

This afternoon I set about customizing all the settings to my liking, a job made much easier using the latest version of DecoderPro<\/a>.\u00a0 This decoder is very complex, but as such it’s very powerful in it’s features and function.\u00a0 For this reason I wanted the newest decoder definition and I wasn’t disappointed.\u00a0 This definition is a vast improvement over the older version I’d had some limited experience with back in November.\u00a0 I even figured out how to do some especially neat things with the decoder that aren’t even mentioned (directly) in the manual.\u00a0 I’m going to have fun with this engine.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And to be sure, I’m still<\/em> installing Tortoise switch motors.\u00a0 I only have about four left to install though, and I’ll be caught up with the track that’s down.\u00a0 I’m finally getting started on modifying all those Shinohara code 70 switches for DCC compatibility.\u00a0 That’s one of those tasks that I really don’t want to do, and I’ve avoided it for many months now.\u00a0 But trains ain’t gonna roll any further down the line if I don’t get this project done, so I just need to bite that bullet.<\/p>\n

Oh, I noticed that this is my 100th post<\/strong> to the blog.<\/p>\n

\"fireworks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hmmm, is that applause or jeers that I’m hearing???<\/p>\n

-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in November I wrote a post documenting the new Rivarossi Heisler that I’d just acquired.\u00a0 I gave a brief description of the good (and not-so-good) features of the model, and mentioned at the end how I loved the whistle.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locos-rolling-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}