Newbie....steam help

[dspaulding]

Greetings!

I'm new to Trainz, and I'm learning well with driving trains especially diesel. However, I've read the manual, and understand the material. Here's my question.

What do I need to do to prevent the safety valve going off constantly? When I'm driving the Y6, the boiler pressure climbs, and climbs. Never goes back down and I get the non-stop hiss. Obviously I am doing something wrong. I just don't know what. Water levels are being maintained at approx. 66%, fire being left alone since I don't want heat to make steam since I'm making plenty of it.

Thanks!

TS2012

 

[dspaulding]

Okay. I think I've figured out what I need to do to get it to stop. When the session starts, it starts with coal in firebox at 100%. Even with water levels at 100% it didn't solve the safety valve continuously blasting away. It seems you have to get the coal level back down to 20%. Maybe less.

Is there a way to modify this so session doesn't start so hot? If not, what are the alternatives instead of driving with the sound turned off?

 

[rweber95]

The starting coal mass, in kilograms, is defined by tag values in the locos enginespec. Starting coal is defined by the tag Starting-Coal, if it is present. If the tag is not present, edit the enginespec config.txt file to add it. The default value is 500 so start with a value lower than this and retest.

Bob Weber