New MTH Diesel Smoke Feature-What is it??

Maybe its when you use the labor feature on the remote. the smoke varies in intensity the harder the locomotive works. It was always there but now maybe more accurate 

Clem 

If the smoke has 8 levels of intensity, and since real diesels have 8 "notches" in the throttle (well, most do) I would imagine the faster you go or more "notches" in the throttle you go (idle-8), the more smoke. 

 I noticed that on my PS3 diesels. The higher you "rev" up, the higher the smoke output. Makes it look more realistic to me. Not much smoke at idle coming out of a modern diesel.

 Some guys were doing that already with ps2 upgrades.

Here's an Idea.Why don't you call MTH and ask them instead of guessing at it?

Joe got it. I have the new BN Spirit of '76 U-30-C PS-3 and at idle almost no smoke, as the engine sound increases, so does the smoke. From almost nothing at idle to full blown turbo failure fog cloud at run 8. 

BINGO!!

Maybe it was after business hours when Erol thought about it?

Personally I'm very grateful to Erol for raising this issue as I think it explains something that has really been annoying me.

I have only two PS3 diesels, the GEVO with charging lights and a UP AC6000. I think that they were issued a year or maybe more apart, the AC6000 being shipped in May of this year. Smoke performance of the two is wildly different with the GEVO doing what I expect of an MTH diesel (whether it's realistic or not to run them on the high smoke setting) and the AC6000 apparently not producing any smoke on start-up and indeed it appeared to me to take ages for the smoke unit to warm up. 

I didn't see anything in the MTH documentation or on the web page for the AC6000 about a new variable intensity smoke output feature but if it has it that would explain why it behaves as it does. I have not run this engine at max revs yet so I can't be sure.

It seems a little odd that the feature hasn't been explained more fully by MTH but maybe I have missed something in the product announcements.

I probably didn't need to take off the AC6000 body shell and fool around with the smoke unit to see if it was defective . . . Live and learn. 

 It was announced a while back for us MTH fans!

Some others here are maybe not such big fans????

maybe some should read this!

http://mthtrains.com/news/464

Not to make a big deal out of this but I would not have got the picture about the new smoke feature out of the news item linked to (which dates from 2011) or the later item about the PS3 AC6000 model, which is here: 

http://www.mthtrains.com/premier/spotlight/07_2013/a

Also my PS3 GEVO actually dates from 2012 and doesn't appear to have this feature. 

To me it's quite a big change in MTH diesels if the smoke output now only ramps up with higher revs whatever setting you apply - high, medium or low - in the DCS system, which is what seems to be the case. I don't see it referenced in the current edition of the DCS manual that I have downloaded but that could be out of date. I'm sure however that I'll get used to it!