Good evening...I'm working on converting an Atlas Master Silver locomotive to DCC/Sound.  Question is, can I use the light boards that come installed or do I need to find a lighting kit for the conversion?  Been awhile since I did a decoder install and this is the first of these light boards I've encountered.  Any suggestions would be helpful for sure.  Thanks!

Quick question regarding speaker wiring.  Railpro is capable of impedance loads anywhere from 4 Ohms to 16 Ohms, and will output 2 watts and 0.5 watts respectively at these impedances.  I'm using 8 Ohm 1-watt max speakers.  Up to this point I have been wiring them in sets of 4 as series-parallel, so I have been right at 8 Ohms, 1 watt.  

A few months ago I bought a used Bachman H16-44 with DCC installed. It worked but I wanted to play with the CVs. I got curious about what decoder was in it so I took it apart. The entire decoder and wiring were taped up like a cocoon with black electrical tape. What a gooey gloppy mess to take apart. Some mineral spirits and Q-Tips and about a half hour of scrubbing removed most of it. I re-taped with Kapton and the install looks much neater and I know will stay put without the gooey mess. The decoder can breathe too.

I just finished installing a TCS A4X decoder in an Atlas Classic C424. Everything works but I cannot get the start voltage low enough. Or low enough for me. I am using the 3 step table. I have the start voltage CV set to 1, the Mid set to 128 and the max to 255. At speed step one the locomotive starts and smoothly moves along, but it is faster than I would like. I feel I should be able to get it to creep slower. I considered using a 28 step speed curve but can't see how that would help me get a lower start voltage. I have an NCE PowerCab setup.