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Proposal for sound handling and momentum integration

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Originally posted by William Brillinger on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Oct 3, 2015

Alan,

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying about needing to re-enable manual notching.
The way I see combined notching working is this:

You're working a heavy train:
    momentum is set to 10 seconds for high throttle responsiveness:
    notch 8 is set at 80% for the sake of easy numbers

    Engine is idling, you're ready to move
    Set notch 2
    Roll the throttle a bit to slowly begin moving
    Set notch 8
    Slowly work the throttle up 60% (your desired speed)
    Set notch 3 ( the train is up to speed and not working very hard)
    Train is going too fast, you roll the throttle down to 45%
    (notch & sound does not change because you did not go below 30% which is notch 3)
    Train is now too slow, you increase power to 50% - Notch auto increases to notch 5 (you needed the power!)
    Train is up to speed, manually set back to notch 3.
    Time to stop... optionally set notch 1
    slowly work the throttle down to zero. If notch 1 was not set, then the notching will decrease with your power reductions.

You're working a light train:
    momentum is set to 10 seconds for high throttle responsiveness:
    notch 8 is set at 80% for the sake of easy numbers

    Engine is idling, you're ready to move
    Roll the throttle to 20%, sound increases with your movement
    Set notch 1 cause you're coasting.
    Roll the throttle up to 30% - auto notch runs up to 3, you needed the power.
    Set notch 1 cause you're coasting.
    Roll the throttle to 0% to stop.

So the throttle movements would only cancel the manual setting if you passed the threshold (up or down) according to the notch that was currently chosen.

Do you have an example of how this should be different?

- Bill

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Originally posted by kpack05 on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Oct 3, 2015

I'm good with the proposal as it stands.  It will probably need small tweaks as we start to use/test the new features.  But I think what we've come up with is a good baseline and should take care of most of the things we want.

-Kevin

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Originally posted by jacob.damron on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Oct 3, 2015

Bill:

I'm in favor.

Jacob

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Originally posted by Shawn Hogan on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Oct 3, 2015

Bill,
I like your proposal as it is. I'm not running much in the way of diesels these days. I have an old soundtraxx IR throttle I run my diesels with and its kinda cool to notch up the prime mover but only have the train crawling.
With your brake function proposal: if you hold the button down until the train or loco stopped, would it stay stopped until you took some other action? Say touching the brake again or touching the speed button?

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not a Rail Pro user(yet) but my brother and I (count 2 separate layouts here) are planning to go with Rail Pro once we have our layouts a little farther along.
Shawn

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Originally posted by William Brillinger on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Oct 3, 2015

The Brake features as I propose them currently are only a sound effects.
- Bill

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