Traindude, on 26 January 2021 - 07:37 PM, said:
Yep! I would love to set this up as it feels pretty wrong completing an MR charging cycle in two seconds with the locomotive idle. However, rather than adding parameters for just idle and max rpm, I suggest implementing an (optional) CompressorSpeedTab inside the ORTSDieselEngines block or an ORTSCompressorSpeedCurves block, with the ability to enter a whole table of charging rates and RPMs, rather than just idle and max RPM. This would give extra flexibility and allow for more realistic modeling of cases where the compressor speed isn't strictly proportional to the engine speed, like GE locomotives, where compressor speed is minimized in idle, but maximized in notch 1. Simply having options for minimum and maximum RPM would be utterly incapable of replicating the GE configuration.
And as a side note, it would be nice if there was an option to set compressor speed as a volume rate, rather than a pressure rate. Real compressors are most often rated in the cubic feet of air they can displace per minute, but in Open Rails, this must be converted into psi per second or some equivalent. I would like to be able to just give the sim a number in ft^3/min and have it figure out what that should be in psi/s given the current locomotive's main reservoir volume...would save some effort doing those calculations myself.