Loksound auto shutdown.

[swedg]

I have a loco with Loksound Select. It will idle for about a minuet than automatically shut down the prime mover.  Is there a way to turn off this function, or change the "sleep" time. 

Sorry if this has already been covered elsewhere. 

Thanks

[bnsf971]

I will dig out my manual on them, and post the cv number and value for manual startup and shutdown when I get home.

[Mark R.]

This engine is equipped with Auto Start which DOES have the engine shut down after a predetermined amount of time. The engine WILL automatically restart after it sits for a period as well. What engine / sound file is this referring to ? To change this, this would require a change to CV48. There are two different prime movers usually - one with auto-start and one without. You would need to add or subtract 16 from the value in CV48 depending on which one has the auto start feature enabled.

Mark.

[swedg]

Perfect. Thank you. In the case of the intermountain ES44AC this meant setting cv48 to a value of 37. This in combination with disabling the startup lag cv124 to a value of 0 (allowing the engine to move right away without waiting 25 seconds). Allowed me to consist with a Athearn Genesis SD70ACe.

Also master volume Inteountain set to 190 Genesis set to 105 seems to be a pretty good match up.

[bnsf971]

For the GEVO, for non-smart-start, with everything else set to default,I am showing cv48 to 26.

[swedg]

Interesting. Mine is one of the latest run and default for cv48 was 21. Gotta love it.

Look pretty decent together, and now they run good together. 

[swedg]

Something else I discovered. In this case the "Gutless" motors in the Intermountain ES44. Initially when I purchased this engine. I thought its lack of pulling power was due to lack of weight. When doing a Railmaster speaker upgrade, I found space for an extra Ounce of weight. After doing this I found that the locomotive would not even spin the wheels if you held it back. The motor would just hum due to lack of power. I was ready to chuck the drive train in the trash and re motor it with a Kato or NWSL motor. But I decided to tinker with Loksound first. Anyway, long story short-ish. If you set CV 56 (Back EMF - Dynamic Drive Control) to 255 (Default was 1). It really woke this engine up. I am not going to say it is the best puller I have, but it at least acts like other engines where the wheels will actually spin, even if the train its pulling it too heavy.

I am sure some more tweaking will be needed. but this is much more acceptable behavior.