steamer_ctn, on 07 May 2020 - 11:27 PM, said:
Does anybody know whether the TCS system can "cut power" above certain speeds? If so, in the BASIC configuration, I would like to change the OR code so that above the MaxVelocity (design speed) the TF ramps down, rather then going straight to zero. The TCS could override this as a monitoring safety measure.
Thoughts?
Hi Peter,
the TCS system can cut power above certain speeds, but they would be not the max speed of the trainset, but the minimum between such max speed and the max allowable speed in that route point, if configured so; this can be done also with the built-in, MSTS-like, TCS.
I think this is different from eventual provisions that the locomotive may have to avoid to run above its own max speed; I would assume that such provisions might be absent from old locomotives, and might be of different types in more modern locomotives, but I'm not an expert.
What I wouldn't modify is how the maximum allowed speed is computed now in OR (except provisions for inserting a max speed paramenter in the .wag file are introduced), because this can change the behaviour of existing activities, but I think it's not your aim.