Consisting and headlights

[Railcon44]

Howdy, i'm not much into all this consisting thing. I have the digitrax super chief and when i put 2 engines together i just mu them and than go to the mu engine throttle and turn off the lights and number boards and than i watch to see which engine is doing the pulling or pushing and make some adjusting to even them out. for some it might be a hassle, but for me its not. When i want the rear head light on to make a backup move i just turn off the lights on the head unit and than go to the mu engine and turn on the headlight with it both in reverse mode. As soon as i figure out all this consist stuff i will work on trying that. For the time being i'm just having fun.

[rdgk1se3019]

Hamltnblue

 So did it work for you?

I was in your neighborhood the other day.  A job in Royersford.

 

I have not tried it yet.....sometime later today I will

I`m not in my neighborhood.......I`m in Florida for a few days.

[Hamltnblue]

 So did it work for you?

I was in your neighborhood the other day.  A job in Royersford.

[rdgk1se3019]

jalajoie

Make sure the value in CV22 for both locos is Zero "0" and use the double ended consist feature of NCE.

If you don't know how to achieve double ended consisting, let us know.

Sorry it took a year to respond to this but a friend recently bought an NCE Powercab system and had asked me about this topic.......and I just remembered it for myself too.

[jalajoie]

Make sure the value in CV22 for both locos is Zero "0" and use the double ended consist feature of NCE.

If you don't know how to achieve double ended consisting, let us know.

[rdgk1se3019]

 System is NCE.

Advanced consisting.

2 locos in consist.

Sometimes Elephant style sometimes back to back.

[jalajoie]

rdgk1se3019

 Does anyone here have the problem of having all headlights come on when running an mu consist?

Every time I try to run a consist I get all units with their headlights on when I only want the lead units lights on.

How do you work around this?

I have this problem with NCE and QSI decoders.

Did you fix the lighting problem ? If not, could you please give us more informations as to the following :

The system you are using ?

Type of consisting you are using ( Basic, Universal/Old style, Advanced/CV19) ?

How many loco in the consist ?

The direction of travelling of the lead and trailing units (Elephant style or back to back)

 

[Hamltnblue]

There are cv's that handle the lighting for consisting that has to be set.  What System are you running? If NCE it should handle everything for you in the consist setup.

[wjstix]

I tend to get the opposite problem...call up an engine and turn on it's lights, call up a second engine and turn on it's light. Now add the first engine to the second in a consist and poof! the first engine's lights go out. Sometimes have to go back and re-do everything a time or two until the consist is set up and both engines have their lights on.

[rdgk1se3019]

 Does anyone here have the problem of having all headlights come on when running an mu consist?

Every time I try to run a consist I get all units with their headlights on when I only want the lead units lights on.

How do you work around this?

I have this problem with NCE and QSI decoders.