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December 05, 2005 - TRACKSIDE SALES QSI Aftermarket Sound Dealership & Service/Upgrade Center
 

TRACKSIDE SALES is proud to announce that we have been approved as an authorized QSI Dealer & Service/Upgrade Center.

QSI will soon be offering their famous sound decoder units that have been factory installed in Atlas Gold, Broadway Limited and PROTO 2000 locomotives, for aftermarket sale through approved dealers.

Several important improvements have been made to the Quantum system since its introduction in the Broadway Limited Hudson in 2002. When you upgrade with a new Quantum memory chip, you will receive all of these new improvements including some features not currently available in production locomotives.

The following are examples of the technologies that will be available by performing the chip upgrade:

Features Common to Analog and DCC
 

  • Downloadable sounds and software enabled to allow future sounds and code
    improvements     to be installed in locomotive without removing the memory chip. (Requires additional
    download module to be connected between your PC and program track; to be announced).
     

  • Back EMF Load Compensated Speed Control.  This feature had not been previously available in
    Analog or DCC.
     

  • Improved sound profiling allows individual sounds to remain audible even at low system volume
    settings.
     

  • Added Individual sound volume settings including 1) Horn, 2) Bell, 3) Motor, 4) Fan, 5) Turbo, 6)
    Air Brakes, 7)  Air Pumps, 8) Air Let-off, 9) Short Air Let-off, 10) Squealing Brake/Flange, 11)
    Dynamic Brakes, and 12) Coupler Sounds.
     

  • Sound of Power™ added to simulate increased power demands under acceleration and decreased
    power under deceleration.
     

  • Synchronized steam dynamo sound with headlight turn on operation.
     

  • Progressive shutdown capability including states of Disconnect, Standby and Total Shut Down.
    Available for DCC and DC (with QARC Technology and Quantum Engineer)
     

  • Extended Shut Down Scenario. Available in DC with QARC Technology and Quantum Engineer.
     

  • Start Up
     

  • Extended Start Up Scenario. Available in DC with QARC Technology and Quantum Engineer.
     

  • Functional Air Brakes to slow train with added brake squeal and air-line let off sounds.
    Available in DCC and DC with QARC Technology.
     

  • Verbal Status Report of locomotive state. Available in DCC and DC with QARC Technology.
     

  • Play Horn or Whistle with alternate endings. Available only with sound sets that have sound
    records of different horn and whistle endings.
     


Features in Analog
 

  • Regulated Throttle Control with real inertia effects. There have been many improvements in
    Regulated Throttle Control since its introduction.
     

  • Separate sound records for Horn hoots and Whistle hoots.
     

  • Load settings allowing up to 15 levels of inertial.
     

  • Special Heavy Load option allows near constant momentum of trains up and down grades.
    In Heavy Load, the throttle will increase or decrease motor revs and Sound-of-Power™ without
    noticeably changing the locomotives momentum which allows operator to individually control
    locomotive motor RPM and sound settings during operation. QARC only.
     

  • Selection of helper type locomotives including Normal, Lead, Mid, End and Pusher type helpers.
     

  • Direction setting for improved lighting control of locomotives in consists.
     

  • New accurate way to set V-Start.
     

  • Improvement in changing direction in Neutral to provide three hoots when moving in reverse
    and two hoots when moving to forward.
     

  • QARC™ Technology added. Quantum locomotives not equipped with new QSI QARC™ (Quantum
    Analog Remote Control) Technology can now be upgraded.
     


QARC uses special remote control signals to operate different Quantum features.  Add the simple QARC controller, called Quantum
Engineer, to your existing Analog power pack. With Quantum Engineer, you can operate features that are
otherwise available only in DCC.  
 

  1. Turn On or Off Lights
     

  2. Doppler Horn
     

  3. Shut Down and Start Up Locomotives
     

  4. Operate Prototype-like Air Brakes
     

  5. Turn on Dynamic Brakes
     

  6. Change System Volume while Train is Operating
     

  7. Mute Engine Sounds while Train is Operating  
     

  8. Disconnect power to the Motors
     

  9. Put the Engine in Standby
     

  10. Quickly Change between STC and RTC Throttle Control
     

  11. Load and Heavy Load
     

  12. Status Reports  
     

  13. Quick and Easy Programming
     

  14. Operate many Other Features
     


Features in NMRA Digital Command Control (DCC)
 

  • Regulated Throttle Control included for the first time in Quantum DCC.
     

  • Engine direction can now be changed rapidly allowing more reliable uncoupling operation over
    track magnets. Previous Quantum operation would gradually slow locomotive to a stop before
    changing direction often missing the uncoupling magnet.
     

  • Added CV’s
     

    • CV 5 V-High.
    • CV 51 Mute Volume allowing the sounds to reduce but not go completely off when Mute is
    activated.
    • CV 55.110.5 Ditch Light Strobe Hold Time.
    • CV 56.0 Packet Time Out Shutdown.
    • CV 56.12 Chuff Interval Scale Factor allows adjustment of chuff rate.
    • CV 62 On/off control of verbal announcements.
     

  • New CV’s added to program motor PID parameters.
     

  • New Sounds
     

    •  New GE pump
    •  New E8 dual horn
    •  New Sound Sets in Steam in Diesel

 


 

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