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KPack:
Prototypes do not have directional lighting.  As far as I know, that's an invention of model railroading. 

What I do is have the normal front and rear light buttons, and I turn both on when running switching ops.  I prefer to have full control over my lighting functions and turn them on and off as needed.

You can have both front and back turn on with one button by using something like the ditch light button, then assign the two lights to the front and rear light colors.

ON28:
I'll try that, thanks. 

Coupe633:
I am having similar issues with my Proto 2000 SD9. I have plugged the LM-3S into the 8pin factory board. The RP User Manual indicates that I need to set the Motor Full Load Current  before doing anything else. That was successful. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to when the front and rear lights come on or go off. I am new to Rail Pro but hopefully once you fine RailPro fans help me with this I will be able to easily program the rest of my locomotives. I to would like to have the head light come on 100% when the direction is Forward while the rear light is dimmed, then when I select Reverse, the headlight dims and the rear light glows 100%. No ditch lights or anything else. How do I program this? In the Control Locomotive section there are the Front Light, Back Light, Front Dim and Back Dim buttons. In the Loco. Button Setup section I can assign the various buttons. I think this is where I need to be to program this. What seems to be confusing to me is the Output. Since I am using the 9pin connector I would use Output 1 (white) and Output 2 (Yellow) for the front and rear lights and NOT Output 5 (Green) and Output 6 (Purple) for the 6 pin since I an not using those wires on the 6 pin (just the brown wires for the speaker). There are 3 light effects that I downloaded 1) On Off 1 Sec Rev2   2) Dim Rev2  3) Ditch Rev2. Since I am not using Ditch lights which one of these would I select? I am not sure exactly what they do but it seems that Option 2) Dim Rev2 would be the light effect that I want.  In the User Manual (Rev. 2.03) page 20 it says that you must set up two buttons and enable this option for it to work but it doesn't go into any detail on how to actually do this.

G8B4Life:

--- Quote from: Coupe633 on July 12, 2019, 12:58:18 PM ---I am having similar issues with my Proto 2000 SD9.

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It sounds like your after "Rule 17" dimming. There is no way to do this automatically in RailPro, you will have to do the dimming manually.

By default the front and rear headlights use output 1 and 2 (white and yellow wires on the 9 pin JST) and the lighting board in the SD9 will be set up for this (and you must use these outputs if you want to use directional lighting, ie, the headlights automatically change direction when the loco changes direction).

In the button setup you would make a button for the front headlight using the front headlight button and set it to control output 1. You'd then do the same for the rear headlight using the rear headlight button and setting it to use output 2. Both would use the On/Off 1 Sec Rev 2 effect.

Then, you can make Dim buttons for the front and rear headlights using the front and rear Dim buttons. These control the same outputs as the actual headlight buttons but use the Dim Rev 2 effect.

In the Locomotive setup pages there is an option to enable or disable directional lighting, you need to make sure this is enabled if you want to use directional lighting.

I must say don't understand why people want "auto" directional lighting, it's not prototypical (it was invented by the toy train market) and the ease of setting RP up to not use directional lighting is one of the reasons I went with RP.

- Tim

ON28:
There's a lot we railroad modelers do that isn't prototypical, but that's another discussion!

My friend the engineer, when he started as a brakeman on a local, liked to ride on the nose of the switcher because the headlight kept him warm on cold days. 

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