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I've been having an issue for a year now with my Donner SW1500.
I doesn't make power after notch 4.
I took the protected files for that engine out of the .ap folder for Donner's assets but it didn't fix anything, so I now know the problem is from RSC/DTG.
My other SW1500 from Marias Pass is fine.

I'm stumped on this one. I've looked in the simulation bins and also the engine bin and can't find the problem.
Could this be related to the .out file?

Have you compared the DP SW1500's with others, like BN units from Marias Pass or the stock SW1500 that was sold separately?

Amps is limited to 1500 in the simulation bin, and this value is reached quite early, like in run 4 you noticed.
There could be a problem with the power curves, but without reference that's hard to point out.

I couldn't find a physics correction pack for these locos.

_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha wrote:Have you compared the DP SW1500's with others, like BN units from Marias Pass or the stock SW1500 that was sold separately?

Amps is limited to 1500 in the simulation bin, and this value is reached quite early, like in run 4 you noticed.
There could be a problem with the power curves, but without reference that's hard to point out.

I couldn't find a physics correction pack for these locos.

Yes and it's not just a cosmetic thing with an improper amp reading, it's actually not making more horsepower after notch 4. It kinda makes it hard to do a local run with that switcher when it's got a terrible bug like that.

I've been wondering what is in those .out files.

I hate to inject any common sense here but why don't you just substitute the files from Marias Pass into the DP renaming as necessary?

This is a problem with the TractiveEffortvsThrottle file. Try swapping it for a 1500 that works properly.

Buzz am doing that right now.
Anthony, I already tried that with no success, so I renamed the Donner SW1500 TractiveEffortVsSpeed.dcsv and swapped the TractiveEffortVsSpeed.dcsv from Marias Pass in there and now it works great. ( I put the DP, TractiveEffortVsThrottle back the way it was )
I'd like to put out a little patch for that, but I know nothing of what numbers do what in those particular files.
Any patch would have to be careful to only include the TractiveEffortVsSpeed.dcsv file and not any other files in the simulation folder so it wouldn't mess up my Donner Pass Brake fix mods that some are using.

Open the .dcsv file (notepad will work) and look in the one that's good. Change the numbers in the bad one to the good one and away you go.