Hi guys, I need help/advise how should I operate n-Wagen to be on time on every station in the service timetable on Linke Rheinstrecke. I'm asking this because: when I'm starting from full stop setting Tap level higher that 2, the n-Wagen starts to strangely hopping, so it looks like I'm providing too much power and the wagons in the consist are bouncing of each other creating this hopping effect (that's just my assumption as it is not visible from outside camera). From the in-cab view it looks like driver's head would do something like this: if I want to omit this hopping effect I need to start from full stop with Tap on level 2 and then carefully applying next Tap levels - but this effects in me being late on the scheduled arrival time on the next stations, resulting in being about 15 minutes past the schedule on the last station (Mainz or Koblenz). So, how should I drive this thing to be on time? Or is it not possible?
I don't think you should be concerned about the bouncing. I assume it is just a thing that happens with old tap changer locomotives - because in my country we still have a few old tap changer locomotives in service (MÁV V43) and you can distinctively feel the same bouncing back and forth in the passenger cars as it accelerates. So just accelerate normally and don't be bothered about it. I actually really enjoy the effect, because as I said, it reminds me of the feel I get in our own trains.
Indeed. You can feel it even in more ‘modern’ (relatively speaking) tap changers like the Br 143. Just accelerate in the cab car the same way you would in the loco.
Additionally, lower the Motion Sway percentage. Parts of the new suspension alpha code are already active, leading to ugly cab rumbling on some routes (LIRR, Harlem, NTP and some more)
Ok, many thanks for clarifying that Dinosbacsi and Lamplight. I would never thought such bouncing may be a real life thing. When I was a child, all electric locos in my country were tap changer type (and some are still in service), but I do not recall I would ever experience such effect. But I was a child quite a lot of time ago It's strange a little that it is only visible when driving in n-Wagen cab, the same consist driven from BR103 cab has no such effect. Thanks also for the suggestion about camera motion sway Spikee1975, I have it set for 122% now, I'll lower it by half and check how it will works for n-Wagen.
But in real life you can feel the same bouncy effect in the passenger cars even if they are being pulled by the locomotive at the front - at least here with the MÁV V43. Of course it is possible that the effect we see in TSW is not actually from the tap changing nature of the locomotive but just a funky physics "bug"? I'm not sure, but in any case I like it.
