- Electronic Solutions Ulm
Electronic Solutions Ulm (known as ESU) is a German manufacturer of accessories for
model train s, especially known for their locomotivedecoder s.The products include the "LokPilot" and "LokSound" series of decoders and recently the
Märklin company has teamed up with ESU for the manufacture of the decoders for their new generation of locomotive decoders.ESU was one of the first manufacturers to produce decoders capable of producing sounds - a feature that has become very popular with model railroaders. Their Loksound v3 decoders have the added benefit that end-users can re-program the sound images that are used within the decoder, using a LokProgrammer.
Some of their decoders such as the LokPilot and LokSound are multiprotocol in that they support the
Motorola format as well asDigital Command Control (DCC) and also Märklin style analog AC current. Their LokPilotDCC on the other hand is a pure DCC decoder and will not work in a pure Märklin/Motorola environment.External links
* [http://www.loksound.de/ ESU]
* [http://layout.mixmox.com/1/installing_digital_decoder installing an ESU decoder]
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