Description

The Rumble 1 is a small self contained circuit board that plays sound clips from internal data memory. It is intended to be included within a model railway layout and used to provide background sounds, greatly increasing the realism of the layout. Imagine how hearing station announcements, doors slamming, track clatter, and even rumbles of thunder would bring life to a layout. Being small and self contained, more than one unit could be added, allowing truly localised sounds around a layout.

The unit is self contained requiring only power to operate and includes a speaker, an in-built optical sensor and connections to allow the unit to be triggered from switch closures.

The unit has been designed using modern technology, allowing benefits over competing systems. Multiple sounds can be stored. The sound clips are downloaded using the supplied PC control software. The sound clips are prepared  from the sound files using the popular wav file format and as such may be created/compiled by the user. Within the layout, an in-built optical sensor and switch closures can be used to trigger a sound clip as well as being played at random. The triggers are fully configurable from the supplied PC control software

• Self contained circuit board requiring only power to operate.
• In-built loud speaker
• Connection point for external 8R/16R speaker (external speaker not included)
• Configured using simple to use software running on a PC and communicating via a USB link
• Can store multiple sounds
• Sounds downloadable from PC software. Sounds must be prepared as wav files
• Total play time between 1 minute and 4 minutes depending on sound quality
• In-built optical trigger, operating distance up to 1”
• Provision for three external switch closure triggers
• Triggers fully configurable. All four triggers may active at the same time.
• Compatible with DC and AC (DCC) systems
• Wide power range