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Increasing break values in Passenger cars

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Charter Member · 518 posts

I have not messed with passenger car coupler break values in some time. I can change the "3" to "5" to address my rough train handling?
Wagon ( amtksl_baggage
Type ( Carriage )
WagonShape ( amtksl_baggage.s )
Name ( "P Amtrak Coach B Superliner JH" )
Size ( 3.02m 3.712m 25.85m )
Mass ( "50t" )
WheelRadius ( 0.5m )
InertiaTensor ( Box (3m 4m 25.8m) )
Coupling (
Type ( Automatic )
Spring (
Stiffness ( 3e6N/m 5e6N/m )
Damping ( 3e6N/m 3e6N/m )
--------------------->> Break ( 3.6e7N 3.6e7N ) <<------------------

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Charter Member · 2005 posts

RE: Increasing break values in Passenger cars

Stiffness ( 1.8e6N/m 4.5e6N/m )
Damping ( 1.4e6N/m/s 3.6e6N/m/s )
Break ( 3.6e7N 3.6e7N )
May be enougj to solve your problem. Note the unit change and nods in ther other lines.
if not
Break ( 5.4e7N 5.4e7N )
should work to keep them together.
Bob

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Charter Member · 518 posts

RE: Increasing break values in Passenger cars

Bob, I didn't even think about stiffness and damping, thanks for the tip!Have you used the replacement superliners through cutbank yet?

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Charter Member · 2005 posts

RE: Increasing break values in Passenger cars

Hi John,
No, I had a major computer failure abouot 2 weeks ago, and am using the wife's computer at the moment. About all it will do is let me send a few messages. Hopefully the motherboard will get here by friday??
Thanks,
Bob

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