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Failures Sliders Settings 16/08/2021 at 14:03 #141171 | |
bugsy
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Phil-jmw in post 141119 said:I find the information regarding the failure settings quite useful as I've often wondered where to set the sliders for a realistic level of failures. I also find the F11 feature comes in handy from time to time. I expect that others could use your settings as well. Thanks Everything that you make will be useful - providing it's made of chocolate. Last edited: 16/08/2021 at 14:05 by bugsy Reason: None given Log in to reply |
Failures Sliders Settings 16/08/2021 at 14:27 #141172 | |
jrr
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Thank you for the outline of slider settings. The one bugbear I have is that more often than not as soon as the technician phones to say a problem is cleared, another one immediately takes its place (sometimes before I've answered the call!). I accept that an arbitrary limit is not prototypical, but surely neither is this. Would it be easy to program it to an 'average' number of failures with a maximum as well, so just occasionally we might drop to none for a few minutes, or does that never happen IRL? Last edited: 16/08/2021 at 14:30 by jrr Reason: None given Log in to reply |
Failures Sliders Settings 16/08/2021 at 17:38 #141174 | |
Dionysusnu
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jrr in post 141172 said:Thank you for the outline of slider settings. The one bugbear I have is that more often than not as soon as the technician phones to say a problem is cleared, another one immediately takes its place (sometimes before I've answered the call!). I accept that an arbitrary limit is not prototypical, but surely neither is this. I've been told that realistically, most areas only have 0 or 1 failures at any time. As much as it's fun to manage issues in SimSig, most signalling in real life is more repetitive, with less delays. Anyways, what I usually do, is set the arbitrary failure limit to 10 (the maximum), because as you say, an arbitrary limit is unrealistic. To compensate, my failure sliders are usually only at 1 or 2 clicks. This gives an average of up to 3 concurrent failures, depending on the area size. Log in to reply |
Failures Sliders Settings 16/08/2021 at 19:56 #141175 | |
Phil-jmw
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jrr in post 141172 said:Thank you for the outline of slider settings. The one bugbear I have is that more often than not as soon as the technician phones to say a problem is cleared, another one immediately takes its place (sometimes before I've answered the call!). I accept that an arbitrary limit is not prototypical, but surely neither is this.With my failure settings set as in Bugsy's repost of my comment from an earlier thread, I can go for hours without a failure, or I may get 2 almost at once, that's the luck of the draw, just like in real life (many things can influence this, such as time of day/year, prevailing weather conditions, location, infrastructure with a repeat failure history, to name but a few). Many years of Simsig use have enabled me to tailor my failure and delay settings to mirror my real life experiences. If you're often getting a new failure occur almost as soon as an existing failure has been given back in order, maybe your failure sliders are set too high. Last edited: 16/08/2021 at 20:03 by Phil-jmw Reason: None given Log in to reply |
Failures Sliders Settings 17/08/2021 at 07:58 #141177 | |
kbarber
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Phil-jmw in post 141175 said:jrr in post 141172 said:I would echo this. During my signalling days, I could go several weeks without a failure (admittedly in a mechanical box, with a correspondingly limited area of control). One or two boxes had known trouble spots. (There was a track circuit on the up at North Pole that would drop arbitrarily several times a night, every night, forcing the block from Mitre Bridge to Train on Line - and would pick up equally arbitrarily but commonly after it had been necessary to accept a train under 25(a)(iii). A friend tells of a track circuit at Euston that was better as a weather indicater than a track circuit - it would SOWC every time it rained.) Otherwise a failure was a rare and roundly-cursed nuisance.Thank you for the outline of slider settings. The one bugbear I have is that more often than not as soon as the technician phones to say a problem is cleared, another one immediately takes its place (sometimes before I've answered the call!). I accept that an arbitrary limit is not prototypical, but surely neither is this.With my failure settings set as in Bugsy's repost of my comment from an earlier thread, I can go for hours without a failure, or I may get 2 almost at once, that's the luck of the draw, just like in real life (many things can influence this, such as time of day/year, prevailing weather conditions, location, infrastructure with a repeat failure history, to name but a few). Many years of Simsig use have enabled me to tailor my failure and delay settings to mirror my real life experiences. If you're often getting a new failure occur almost as soon as an existing failure has been given back in order, maybe your failure sliders are set too high. Log in to reply |