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No high nose GP38s this time (still waiting for N&W as delivered ...)More N&W cabooses for me I guess ...
Cause I need another KCS loco like I need a third eye.
I am curious what the chassis for the Loksound GPs will look like. I hope they can further miniaturize the board to add as much weight as possible.If they did a half length board with a shallow, long sugar cube speaker enclosure with integrated LED at the end, it wouldn't take up any more room than the current DCC board.
Crap. There are CR GP38s in the run.
Is it too much to hope for that they have the small fuel tank like the illustrations?
The ESU LokSound bards are pretty well packed with pretty much smallest components available (lots of SMD 0201 components). Not sure if they can shrink them much further. As far as miniaturizing the speaker system, that will also be hard to do as the enclosure needs certain amount of volume for best sound reproduction. But it would be nice if they could magically shrink the sound generating components.EDIT:I've been thinking about this and it does appear that there might be some possibilities of shrinkage. The blue board is the Atlas S1 ESU decoder, and the green one is 73199. Both decoders do have some fairly empty areas on the circuit board, so theoretically, they could be made shorter, leaving some room for a speaker (if one wants to mount the speaker inside the hood, not in the fuel tank).
The wired micro select is just about half the size the the Atlas board replacement.