Hi guys,

I am a newby who has yet to make any control investment.

Ring seems to have the most innovative control system currently on the market.  This is an exciting product!

I’ve read their web site, viewed their videos, listened to Ring’s MRH podcast, and read most of the posts to this and other sites.  I need to know more, though, and thought maybe there are others that have questions. 

Here are some that I have:

I have a factory installed Tsunami (TSU-1000) in a Athearn Genesis MP15AC.

I have a question that has had me puzzled for some time now – and that’s the break squeal.  I can’t seem to get it to work on my engine?  Pressing various as-listed function keys gets me what I believe is the air break sound – but coming to a stop I hear nothing.

Pressing the Option button on the PowerCab (default for brake) it just stops completely.

Recently a friend of mine brought over a couple of older proto 1000 GP20s and has asked me to install DCC and sound into them. They are nice locos but are very tight on space. i think i can get a tsunami sound decoder into them but where to put the speaker?  It looks like the only possibile space is to black out the cab windows and put it in the cab. I am really beginning to think that simply replacing the older locos with newer models might be his best bet. I have done speaker installs in cabs before and have not had the results i would like.

Here's a "How To" on how I built a custom N scale 8" manual turntable.

I posted this as part of my Free-moN Staging Yard construction thread, but thought it'd be good to establish as its own thread for comments, search and archiving purposes.