I have amassed 9 steam locomotives from various brands and have converted non-smokers to smoke and updated smokers to a better smoke unit. I have tried different brands of smoke fluid. Bachmann fluids are OK but Seuthe fluid is much better and is edged out by Mega-Steam. I have also tried smoke fluid that fire departments use in training exercises. Seuthe smoke units are the best. They don't leak like the open pot Bachmann units.
The one issue I can see is that even the lower voltage Seuthe smoke generators need more voltage than the locomotive needs to operate at a reasonable speed. If there was a way to perhaps incorporate a resistor or rheostat in the locos to run the motor at less voltage than the smoke generator, it would add realism to the model railroad. Running the train at almost wide open just to achieve satisfactory smoke effect is not desirable.
The one issue I can see is that even the lower voltage Seuthe smoke generators need more voltage than the locomotive needs to operate at a reasonable speed. If there was a way to perhaps incorporate a resistor or rheostat in the locos to run the motor at less voltage than the smoke generator, it would add realism to the model railroad. Running the train at almost wide open just to achieve satisfactory smoke effect is not desirable.
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