How to keep the Pantograph down under AI control

[JackClare1995]

Good morning/afternoon/evening all.

Yesterday, whilst driving on the fantastic Watley Junction line, I did a bit of an experiment. I put a 4-car London Midland class 321 behind a Virgin class 47 and told it to Navigate To x...the pantograph came up, as expected. I have two pantograph rules on my system, one of which is PantographState and one is pantz. I set up the train to lower the pantograph, and then Navigate To x...the pantograph lowered, but then when it reached the Navigate To command, the pantograph raised. I tried a Navigate To > Pantograph Lower Command > Navigate To and the same thing happened.

Does anyone know how to keep the pantograph essentially locked out of use when being pulled by a Diesel locomotive on a non-electrified section of track, to give it that 'broken down and rescued' effect?

Jack

 

[Zeldaboy14]

I wouldn't happen to know much about this, but is the train Auto-driven? if so, then you can't do anything about the Pantograph.

 

[JackClare1995]

Yeah it's on AI hmm, damn it. Might have to just not put the unit with the pantograph into the set, and put two non-pantograph units. Wouldn't look perfect but at least there'd be no raised pantograph

Jack

 

[H222]

....He said navigate to so yes it's AI...

You could try cloning it and removing the panto on a single version an using that

 

[shaneturner12]

It may be worth looking if there's any specific driver commands to do this. I think I saw one previously, but cannot remember the name or KUID.

Shane

EDIT: Try one of the following commands:

Pantograph State Control (<KUID:151055:100122>) - TS2009 or later
Set Pantograph State (<KUID2:147570:80002:1>) - TRS2004 or later
PantographState (<KUID:178892:80004>) - TRS2004 or later

Shane

 

[JackClare1995]

@H222 I could do that! I'm not sure how to remove the pantograph but that certainly would work, as it would still have the gap where the pantograph would rest, but it'd just like the pantograph was flat on the roof unless I went right up to it and looked in great detail.

@shane Cheers for the KUID's I think I have the bottom (if it's the same PantographState command) but I'll certainly give the other two a go later on today!

Thanks for the help guys! I'll report the results in the morning!

Jack

 

[Mightyena]

sorry for slow reply, if you're still having issues, try using the pantograph state command, but tell it to raise the rear pantograph, which (on trains with 2 pantos) drops the front one and lowers the rear one. In the case of UK EMUs/locos with only 1 pantograph, it simply drops the pantograph and raises the (non existant) rear one. That's how I do it with WEN's class 477 on DC.

Hope that helps

 

[JackClare1995]

Hey James

Dieselbuilder messaged me with a work-around, involving adding an invisible pantograph to the train. I did it with a 321 and it worked wonders. I have a screenshot from when Dan got it working for me, showing a 321 being hauled by a 26 under AI, with lowered pantographs, but I'm not at home at the moment, so I'll have to post it in a few hours

I'm going to try it with a few other AC units when I get home, namely, the 390 and the 323. I imagine your way works greats on units with only one pantograph, but the 390 has two

Many thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a go when I get home!

Edit: Just remembered I have them on my Photobucket






Best wishes

Jack