PS1 Engine and DCS

I personally haven't tried it but software version 4.3 was suppose to fix that and the voltage start was 1 volt.   Upgrade??

Do you have the engines with can motors or old AC motor design?

Using the variable circuits on a TIU, causes AC wave form distortions, which get worse as the difference between input and output voltages increases.  This causes the loco to run faster than you would expect at the voltage stated on the readout.  Only cure is to reduce input voltage, which you can't do with a brick.

I have my DCS setup to start at 2 volts on the variable channels, that solves the jackrabbit start issue.

GRJ, didn't that option only arrive with software version 4.3.0?

DCS 4.30 added the ability to operate TIU Tracks and ALL TIU Tracks as low as 1 volt.

Yes, and 4.30 has been available for free for some time.  If you need that feature, there's no impediment to upgrading to 4.30 and getting it.

In fact, GRJ, it has always been free.  "Some time" is a relative term:  judging from posts, many DCS operators still don't have it.  Meanwhile, I have been enjoying the benefits and bug-free operation of 4.40.

Thanks for the input. I'm using Version 4.2. Sounds like an upgrade to 4.3 will solve my problem. Thanks again!

Nice try, but I know what the date is.

 I believe that would be a yes, and I'm really not pulling an April Fool's joke on you either.

GRJ, maybe you've lost your touch with MTH.  Would I jest?

Perhaps just one day a year.

RJR must have fired up his Flux Capacitor to obtain that version?

Yep, but that Flux Capacitor is only good one day a year.  Even then it's not always that effective.

GRJ, I am deeply hurt.  You have cut me to the quick.  To say that I, a serious devotee of the steel rail and the mighty iron horse, would jest, even on one day each year.  Oh how long must I suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fame? 

"Quo usque tandem abutere, Joannis, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?"  (Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline, adapted.)