PS2 Upgrade Lighting question

Most sound files have the ditch lights enabled.  You can set them to be always on, those will do the trick.

Personally, I like the LED approach, that's where I usually go.

John, 

I tried the ditch lights they would not light?  

I downloaded the premier F3 file, and it seems to be the same for every roadname.

Tomorrow I will try the ditch lights again..maybe I missed something silly. 

I like the LED idea also, but rusty ... and hesitant.....

thankfully this is not time pressing

John,

tried the ditch lights ... they are not working, the sound file must not have them turned on.

I think it will be LED's, I will have to have you check over the resistor figures once I lay it all out.  thanks a million John....

That doesn't work unless you are ok with the number boards flashing when the whistle blows.  You must use a sound file that has number boards programmed in the file.  G

I had MTH reprogram some F-3 sounds files to add the number board light function.

If the engine did not have a MARS to begin with not sure why the upgrade file added it.

Which engine? You can call and ask Jeff to get the engineers to add the features you need. Apparently it is just some checking of boxes in the program.  I will look up which sound files had the changes to add the features, but I think it was a PS-1 NYC F-3 ABA.  Many of the newer versions would also have NB available.  G

GGG thanks...Ill be in touch

The resistor for LED's from the MTH headlight circuit is a 220 ohm for maximum intensity.  Truthfully, for the number boards, I'd probably consider something higher like 680 or even 1k.

Thanks GGG and Gun!,

I found one file that has the numberboards enabled but has passenger sounds, the customer wants freight.  I found a whole bunch that say that there are numberboards and freight yard, but when I load the file the numbersboards wont light.  I will wait to hear from MTH.  Thanks for the ideas....

It does sort of boggle my mind that they don't just enable all that stuff in the sound files as the default.

Wait to you get to some of the steam and diesels that have markers as default off.  You do a conventional rest to clear the engine and they go off.  If you are a conventional operator or have the small Remote CDR you have no way of turning them back on with out DCS or the DCS Commander.  I have no idea what they were thinking, or else the Sound Engineer failed to check the right boxes when making the file.  G