EN57 compressor fails to restart

[Angelo]

Hi!

A few days ago I was driving an EN57; in DG Strzemieszyce I had to lower the pantograph. After I had raised it back up and turned everything on, I couldn't start the compressors.

The converters were running. I tried the top left switch to unlock the compressor breaker, both with the compressor switched on and off. I barely made it to Katowice, with ~0,47MPa in the main reservoir and ~0,4MPa in the brake cylinders.

What did I do wrong? Or could it be a bug?

[Angelo]

Well, that was meant to go in the multiplayer bugs section... Could some mod move it there, please?

I shouldn't post when I'm busy doing other things...

[Gazz292]

ahh, i ignored this as i only drive in multiplayer, and the 'work around' wouldn't work in single player mode i imagine.

i've had this fault a few times, often the only way to 'fix it' is to let the bot take over ... as soon as the bot moves the train the air pressure gauge will jump to full, take back control and the compressor should be working again. 

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A separate thing but related... 

If you lower the pantograph and raise it too many times, then you can get in a 'check mate' situation where it will refuse to raise again, giving control to the bot allows it to raise and drive, but as soon as you take back control the pantograph drops again and refuses to raise... but this is a known bug i've read.

[Angelo]

Thanks!

I refused to try the bot trick, because I wanted to figure out if I could do something about it or if it was just a bug. I eventually let the bot drive when departing from Katowice towards the end of the map, and of course it worked fine.

I also experienced the pantograph bug, which is why I no longer raise and lower the front panto when stopping; but in this specific case, I had to lower the trolleys to go through Strzemieszyce.