Reply to "Why? Why have on-off capability for Odyssey?"

Brian DeFazioOGR Forum Member

@Mike Wyatt posted:
Why would anyone WANT to turn off the Odyssey speed control?? Lionel seems to always have an on-off switch for the feature.

I have found that when creating a locomotive "lashup" with legacy or tmcc.... disabling the odyssey on all but one of the locomotives helps prevent them from fighting each other for contol (particularly on curves). The tighter the curves, the more exaggerated this becomes. It also seems to help prevent thrown traction tires as a result of not fighting each other. My most recent encounter with this a was running two identical TMCC Lackawanna Train Masters together. With odyssey enabled on both, they ran fine on straightaways but fought each other noticeabley on curves (all curves were O72 and larger). Running a locomotive solo, odyssey on is always best.

5/8/203:58 PM

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