Looks like they load test the engines individually, #1 followed by #2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wKgUs6WU8o
I wonder if each engine/generator powers a separate truck?
MidlandMikeI wonder if each engine/generator powers a separate truck?
Yes.
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The loco is held stationary by only the independent brake and hand brakes?
Still in training.
Lithonia Operator The loco is held stationary by only the independent brake and hand brakes?
No. Doing so would burn up the traction motors, and at high throttle it would overcome the brakes and start moving anyway.
During a load test the main generator's output is sent to a large resistor instead of the traction motors. Most locomotives equipped with dynamic braking are able to use their own DB grid as the resistor, which seems to be the case here (I don't see any cables running out of the locomotive).
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Aha. That makes more sense!
Thanks, Dude.
We've had a number of threads, including at least two in detail with Randy Stahl, that cover loadboxing and load-testing measurement.
Many modern locomotives carry this out simply with special routines in the onboard computers.
I do not remember E units as having one engine devoted to each truck. The locomotive I remember built that way was the Baldwin Essl locomotive, which was intended to have each 750hp genset drive the axle under it -- to get the drive to 'scale' easily to the number of modular engines actually fired up. That was not a very good idea and to my knowledge other Baldwins with multiple engines (the Centipedes and BP-20s) used all the TMs all the time.
There's a question -- did any twin-engine locomotive not power each truck by its own engine?
Don't recall whether Baldwin and Lima center-cabs had transition -- if they did, they'd have to go from 3S to 3P, unless they did power each truck with two generators.
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