Claas Lexion 600-700 Series

Rohne
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Claas Lexion 600-700 Series

Post by Rohne »

Hi,

not a bug, but rather strange configs. First of all, it's a very great high quality mod package. But i noticed some significant discrepancies for motor powers and grain tank sizes. I still have the Claas papers with official numbers for correct motor power and grain tank sizes (in german, could send these if needed), and those differ from the configs available in the mod quite heavily. Would be cool if that could be corrected, basically this just requires a few changes of numbers in the xmls. The papers tell following numbers for the old series (before 2013):
  • 620 279hp, 7800l (which was just a barely visible triangle on the top, but not needed as the 8600l configured in the mod was optionally available indeed)
  • 630 339hp (313hp at rated speed only), 8600l
  • 640 same motor as 620, 8600l
  • 650 same motor as 630, 8600l (optionally 9600l)
  • 660 378hp (rated speed 355hp), 9600l (optionally 10500l)
  • 670 431hp (rated speed 390hp), 10500l
so the old 600 series was only available with narrow grain tanks
  • 740 same motor as 670, 9600l
  • 750 466hp (rated speed 431hp), 10500l
  • 760 530hp (rated speed 476hp), 10500l
  • 770 586hp (rated speed 530hp), 12000l
Tier 4 from 2013 brought some changes to the motors (600series more power, 700series less power), and also the grain tank sizes changed (decreased by ~500l for same visible extension, therefore two new wide extensions for total capacities of 11k and 13.5k respectively), some models got larger grain tank configs than before. Configurations now were these:
  • 620 305hp, 8000l (looked same as old 8600l version, optionally 9000l which looked same as old 9600l version)
  • 630 359hp (rated speed 325hp), 9000l
  • 650 same motor as 630, 9000l (optionally 10000l which looked same as old 10500l version)
  • 660 400hp (rated speed 366hp), 10000l (optionally the completely new wide 11000l version)
  • 670 449hp (rated speed 415hp), the new 11000l
  • 740 408hp, 9000l (optionally 10000l)
  • 750 435hp, 10000l (optionally then new 11000l)
  • 760 503hp, the new 11000l
  • 770 585hp, 12800l (looked ~same as old 12000l version, just a bit wider, but more often the 770 was configured with optionally availabe new 13500l)
  • 780 626hp, the new 13500l
620+630 had just 5 walkers, while 640-670 had 6 walkers, that's why 640+650 didn't have more hp than the lower models.
If you find the time the later grain tanks for 11000l and 13500l could get dedicated models as well. Would it be possible to also add the folding pipe for controlled traffic farming with 12m header, which was available for the later 770 and 780? Then it would be perfect.

If I find the time this summer, I could try to get some hq recordings of the very distinctive straw chopper noise, to be integrated into the sound xml ;)