SD60E Fuel Consumption

[Bondy007]

Question for anyone connected with Jointed Rail

I am working on creating sessions for one of my rather large routes and the primary Loco I am using is the JR SD60E
The issue I am having is I want to perform refueling operations during the sessions, but even with fuel consumption active
and running in realistic mode my SD60E's only seem to consume about 7 to 8 liters per hour regardless of load or speed

I am just wondering if there is any way to increase this consumption amount as I believe that this is only about 10% of real world usage
and of course as you already know your assets are pretty well locked from any config or script mods

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Cheers
Bondy

 

[289v8]

Post deleted, I'm not connected with JointedRail.

 

[norfolksouthern37]

The fuel rate for the SD60E should be 8 gallons per hour at idle, and 194 gallons per hour at full throttle. In Trainz this will be interpolated into a rate per notch that will be used to subtract fuel from the fuel queue.

fuelConsumed = fuelConsumed + (fuelRate[iNotch] * time);

This is fairly straightforward and it isnt even required to be in realistic driving mode, as long as consumable queues are on the fuel should go down at that rate.

 

[Bondy007]

The fuel rate for the SD60E should be 8 gallons per hour at idle, and 194 gallons per hour at full throttle. In Trainz this will be interpolated into a rate per notch that will be used to subtract fuel from the fuel queue.

fuelConsumed = fuelConsumed + (fuelRate[iNotch] * time);

This is fairly straightforward and it isnt even required to be in realistic driving mode, as long as consumable queues are on the fuel should go down at that rate.

I understand what you are saying They are using roughly 8 gallons per hour in my session

But then why does the Diesel Fuel commodity load on the SD60E when full show a unit count of 15142
when fuel tanks on these locos was between 3900 and 4500 Gallons depending on road number

am I missing something is there a Trainz Math here that I am unaware of

Sorry for being a pain but this is driving me crazy

Cheers
Bondy

 

[norfolksouthern37]

because the unit size is liters. 15142 liters is 4000 gallons

 

[Bondy007]

Thanks mate

I have my head around the whole math now

Cheers
Bondy