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Adding an engine
William Brillinger:
--- Quote ---If it happens again, I'll try bringing up all the engines and then delete them from the running roster by making sure the throttle is at 000, and then close the page. Then wait 10 seconds to do the next engine.
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I expect the sounds and lights must also be off.
nodcc4me:
Also, if you have engines in a consist, all of them are counted, not just the active one on the controller.
Josephbw:
I had the same problem, and asked Tim Ring how to resolve the issue. Here is the post with Tim's answer.
I sent an email to Tim Ring the other day and got a reply this morning in regards to the problem of "Maximum number of locomotives are in use". I received this response this morning.
Hi Joe,
I am sure there is nothing wrong with either HC. You get a 'Max. locos in use' when your HC is actively controlling more than 12 locos. Although you can have dozens of locos loaded in the HC you can only control up to 12 at a time with a single HC. The HC automatically removes unused locos form the actively controlled list. However, to get the HC to automatically remove an unused loco it has to be at speed 0.0% for more than 10 seconds before you turn off the HC and the track power. If you don't do this the loco can stay active in the HC active loco list and can eventually give you a 'Max. locos in use'. To start from scratch you can press the reset button on the back of the HC that is reporting this (that will clear the locos in use list). Then be sure before you turn the layout off to set all speeds to 0.0% and wait over 10 seconds before powering off the HC and layout.
Please let us know your results because we are very interested in happy customers.
Thank you for contacting Ring Engineering!
So apparently there is a 12 loco limit in a consist. There are a lot of gotcha's that should be included in the manual, and this is one of them. I will send a positive report back to Tim, and also a suggestion for a manual update. BTW, I did what was suggested and it works like a charm. :) I have also been running the 3 unit consist together pulling 30 cars plus 2 dummy engines and a caboose around my test loop whenever I'm down in the basement where I can keep and eye on it. It does seem to be smoothing out and they are playing together much better now.
Joe
Good Luck
William Brillinger:
--- Quote ---So apparently there is a 12 loco limit in a consist
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I need to find the reference to it, but recently I read that there is a limit of 8 locomotives in a real world MU setup.
So I guess 12 is actually generous :)
G8B4Life:
It will be interesting if you can find that reference Bill, The only thing I ever found on the maximum number of MU'd loco's was all hearsay that it was individual railroads that implemented different numbers of maximum MU'd loco's and speculation on the reason for the maximum number. The only thing I've ever read in any official capacity was a standard that stated the minimum number of MU'd loco's that the cabling must support.
- Tim
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