Diesel N-wagen Cab Car Not Working

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  1. blibbles#5319

    blibbles#5319 Well-Known Member

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    So I just bought the DB Br218 in the sale along with a couple other locos and the 218 itself works perfectly fine, pulling n-wagen's, freight or running light, but the N-wagon cab car doesn't seem to work
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    I tried playing one of the Cab car's services on the Dresden to Leipzig route after playing the tutorial and it didn't work, went back to the tutorial, got it moving, went back to the service, set the cab car up in the same order, nope, nothing, went back to the tutorial, got it moving again, went to free roam, set the thing up in the same order as the tutorial:
    KWS remote on
    Reverser in neutral
    Air compressor on
    Engine group 1 start for 10 secs, then on
    Brake key on
    Train line power on for 2 secs
    Brakes off
    Notch 2
    nothing.

    Can someone tell me if there's an extra step or give a better tutorial please, I'd would really appreciate that :|
     
  2. jesper2805

    jesper2805 Well-Known Member

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    Did you put the reverser in forward? Or do you forget that in the list?
     
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  3. blibbles#5319

    blibbles#5319 Well-Known Member

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    Forgot that in the list ._.
     
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  4. jesper2805

    jesper2805 Well-Known Member

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    Ah thats not fun.... :(
     
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  5. blibbles#5319

    blibbles#5319 Well-Known Member

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    Nope .__.
     
  6. Rutger Luiten

    Rutger Luiten Well-Known Member

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    Isn't there also a power control switch in the cab of the cabcar like in the br218? In the cab of the br218 the most left switch on the desk is also somewhere in the cabcar I believe.
     
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  7. AmityBlight

    AmityBlight Well-Known Member

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    I was about to say that. There's a switch labelled "Leistung" which has to be switched on, just like on the 218 itself :)
     
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  8. zaphodbbx#6973

    zaphodbbx#6973 New Member

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    In the back panel of cab 1 in the 218 (the loco) the switch that lets you select between ZWS and KWS has to bet set to KWS. When spawning the n-wagen diesel cab car in free roam, that switch used to be set to ZWS when I last tried, and this can only be "fixed" from the loco's cab.
     
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  9. dutchguy331

    dutchguy331 New Member

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    I laos got the same but you need to go to the br218 locomotive first, and switch the ZWS to KWS :)
     
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