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Ditch lights for trains

trainiac89
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:40:19 GMT

I have set up a light profile for the flashing ditch lights so that lights 1 and 2 alternate, and it is toggled on and off. On startup, I have all of my lights come on. Once I hit the ditch lights, they flash until I want them to stop, and then they go off, but then the lights stay off. Is there a way that they go back to just being on (solid, like they were on startup), or do I have to turn them back on every time? I am trying to replicate how actual trains use the ditch lights (solid lights until the horn is activated, the lights flash for a bit, and then they go back to being solid)

fxbricks
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:15:00 GMT

Your ditch light scenario is very common and the short answer is that this behaviour will require two different actions: 1. Activate alternating flash action for ch 1,2 2. Individual light action for ch 1,2 with activation set to "On" (not toggle) Therefore, with the first action you can activate the ditch lights and when desired you can use the second action to enforce the lights to solid on (rather than off) Unfortunately, this does require two actions but perhaps we can keep this scenario in mind for the future and think about about additional options for the alternating flash. Overall, the best solution will be to allow for "scripted" actions, i.e. an action which activates a "script" file on the PFx Brick to perform a sequence. This is in our roadmap and it would address not only this scenario but many other situations.