02-09-2013, 07:38 AM
Hi yes to my knowledge all locomotives used that day had momentum programmed in.
There were a few cut/paste jobs in the video so at one stage trains seem to stop a bit more abrupt than they did.
The momentum is something you need to get used to first, so I had instances where I slowed the loco down too soon, and it stopped short of coupling, and others where I was too late, and coupled and pushing the whole train back too far so the last car derailed ... Practice makes perfect.
A good working mechanism and good decoder are key to this. The SD9 is equipped with an ESU Loksound decoder. ESU has one of the best motor control decoder functionality build in, that is available on the market. (other really good ones are by Zimo and Lenz). Tsunami's aren't bad either but they take a lot of patience and setting up and I've never been able to get one as smooth as a Loksound yet. To me Tsunami's are best for road engines, switchers etc need more focus on low speed control, and there the German manufacturers have the edge.
I also have a QSI decoder, that one works well too, but you need a science degree setting it up, there are so many parameters it will take you one or more evenings getting right. (and that is with the aid of a computer program like Decoder Pro, I can't begin to imagine trying to do that via a throttle ...)
Koos
There were a few cut/paste jobs in the video so at one stage trains seem to stop a bit more abrupt than they did.
The momentum is something you need to get used to first, so I had instances where I slowed the loco down too soon, and it stopped short of coupling, and others where I was too late, and coupled and pushing the whole train back too far so the last car derailed ... Practice makes perfect.
A good working mechanism and good decoder are key to this. The SD9 is equipped with an ESU Loksound decoder. ESU has one of the best motor control decoder functionality build in, that is available on the market. (other really good ones are by Zimo and Lenz). Tsunami's aren't bad either but they take a lot of patience and setting up and I've never been able to get one as smooth as a Loksound yet. To me Tsunami's are best for road engines, switchers etc need more focus on low speed control, and there the German manufacturers have the edge.
I also have a QSI decoder, that one works well too, but you need a science degree setting it up, there are so many parameters it will take you one or more evenings getting right. (and that is with the aid of a computer program like Decoder Pro, I can't begin to imagine trying to do that via a throttle ...)
Koos
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