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RailPro => RailPro Specific Help & Discussion => Topic started by: nortoneye on February 03, 2018, 11:19:58 AM

Title: steam chuf sounds
Post by: nortoneye on February 03, 2018, 11:19:58 AM

Good Morning,

Did I see something about how to set steam chuf sounds properly??  Anybody have a good process for that?  Changing chuf rate does not seem to work well.

Jim

Title: Re: steam chuf sounds
Post by: TwinStar on February 10, 2018, 08:26:45 PM

I hope to have this issue soon but I don't have the answer.

Title: Re: steam chuf sounds
Post by: KPack on February 10, 2018, 10:45:05 PM

The information I have is contained in this thread: https://rpug.pdc.ca/index.php/topic,563.msg4317.html#msg4317 (https://rpug.pdc.ca/index.php/topic,563.msg4317.html#msg4317)

I haven't tried it yet myself, but hope to soon as I will be installing Railpro in a friend's brass steamers.  It sounds like you'll need to set the speed table for the locomotive according to actual scale speeds, then set the chuff rate to one of the speeds. 

-Kevin

Title: Re: steam chuf sounds
Post by: nodcc4me on February 11, 2018, 08:42:01 AM

I have no way to accurately set the speed tables, but I have tried many times to set the chuff rate in the settings. So far, I have had zero results keeping the 4:1 rate over various speeds. Kevin, please let us know if using the speed tables has any effect on accurately setting the chuff rate.

Title: Re: steam chuf sounds
Post by: MtRR75 on February 19, 2018, 08:52:10 PM

Pardon my delay in answering this thread.  I spent the most of my recent train time trying to understand how the RailPro speed table could help with the chuff rate adjustment.  I think have finally figured it out.

I have set up the Speed Table for one of my locomotives.  Now the synchronization of the chuff sounds to the driver revolutions is MUCH BETTER.  However, it is still not perfect, especially in the slowest speeds.  This might be due in part to the fact that my loco is an older one with a lot of inertia.  (It does have a new motor in it.)

I don’t have time right now to set up my other locomotives.  I have spelled out what I learned so far and how I set up the Speed Table in a PDF file that I posted in the RailPro Users Guides section.

https://rpug.pdc.ca/index.php/topic,634.0.html