Hello,
According to various reports, the 100 hp PDs perform significantly better in the low-speed range than the 130s. Often, the larger 130-ton loader is referred to, which needs to provide more pressure from above and therefore runs more steeply downwards.
To clarify, I checked my LDA while driving in high gear at full throttle uphill:
0.5 bar at approximately 1200 rpm
1.0 bar at approximately 1500 rpm.
"This leaves the pressure at 1.0 bar for the time being (i.e., this is where the control system intervenes, presumably to prevent the pump from operating in the high-pressure range), but only from approximately 2000 rpm does the maximum value of 1.3 bar become regulated."
Overall, the ASZ builds up the same or even higher boost pressure from below, for example, as the AFN - but the latter still generates more torque, which is also more directly dependent on the boost pressure than with the ASZ.
Therefore, the weakness of the ASZ engine in the low-speed range apparently does not stem from actual lack of air, but rather from a brutal limitation of both exhaust gas and/or torque.
IMO, the smaller charger of the ATD/AXR will behave more like the (also smaller) one of the AFN, so that the 100 hp engines in the low-speed range probably won't have an advantage in terms of boost pressure (-> ATD and AXR drivers with LDA or corresponding data logs: please respond

).
For me, the improved performance of the 100 hp engines is therefore (initially) only the result of a "VP-like" software adjustment.
But why does one program the ASZ with this relative disadvantage, which actually represents a significant disadvantage in everyday life?
Does one want to portray the ASZ as particularly comfortable, even producing no noticeable vibrations even at full throttle from idle speed?
Or is it due to the larger PDEs, which (speculation ON) perform worse in the low-speed range (speculation OFF), so that the ASZ is ultimately only "ash-castrated"?