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Ken Z:
With a little advance notice, I welcome visitors. This spring the Railroad Modelers Retreat (and RPM event) will be one mile from my house. April 6-7. Next September the National Narrow Gauge Convention is in Bloomington about 20 miles across town. I always invite folks to bring something to run. That invitation is open..... of course I have S Scale rails.
Ken Z.
Ken Z:
Good Weekend folks,
I hosted another great group of model railroaders this afternoon. Part of the event was "screening" to see if the layout will be on the layout tour program for the National Narrow Gauge Convention this fall. I hope an S Standard Gauge might be of interest. I ran some scheduled trains, DCC and RailPro. The one with the railPro, that attracted a great deal of attention. The job did get run however only after we changed sounds, volume, demonstrated the load function and consisting. I still have some "techniques and features" to learn and there were a couple of questions I could not answer but will need to experiment. Such as if you consist two locomotives and one has a higher "load" setting, which load setting is applied to the consist? I do not have any modules installed into brass locomotives, I was asked if a brass locomotive will block the radio connection. I also could not tell if both horns sounded or if only one unit did.
Ken Zieska
Dean:
From the testing I have done, any changes you make to the 'lead' engine will be sent to the following engines, automatically. I have a 5 unit consist of 3 engines on the front and 2 engines in the middle of a 26 car train. Changing the load setting on the 'lead' engine is automatically sent to the following engines. It's amazing and smooth! Even putting a custom speed chart in the 'lead' engine is sent to the following engines.
As soon as you break the consist ( unlink ) all the settings go back to where they were set on the individual engines.
[ my layout has 2% and 2.5% grades and the consist performed perfectly ]
KPack:
Ken - Dean answered the one question already, the consist does whatever the lead locomotive is set to automatically. No need to change anything on any follower locomotive.
Second question - Ring thinks that brass locomotives may attenuate the signal some, but how much I don't know. I haven't installed in brass myself, but I do have a couple of locomotives that I'll be doing for a friend. I'm interested to test the results. I imagine it may attenuate the signal to some extent but without testing I can't say for certain.
Third question - the horn only sounds on the lead locomotive (or which ever locomotive you are currently selected on). You can select any locomotive in a consist and control it's own function directly if you choose. However, when you are controlling a consist you will normally be controlling the lead locomotive and therefore only it will play sounds like the horn, bell, brake, coupler, etc.
-Kevin
TwinStar:
If someone is blowing the horn on a trailing unit you've either got a big problem or a stowaway!
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