7.
Po si tion rec og ni tion and feed back
The ac ces sory de coder MX82 is equipped with a feed back mech a nism that
is based on the ZIMO train num ber rec og ni tion. “Switch pulses” are sent to
the track if switch ma chines with end switches are used, from which an ap -
pro pri ately equipped com mand sta tion is able to learn the turn out po si tion
and sub se quently send that info along to the cab and com puter.
How ever, the nec es sary hard ware for the MX1 com mand sta tion as well as
the soft ware were not avail able at the time this in struc tion man ual went to
print.
It is not clear at this point ei ther whether the turn out po si tion will be
checked only af ter the turn out is op er ated or a per ma nent su per vi sion is
pos si ble as is the case with the MX8 ac ces sory mod ule (so that a man ual in -
ter ven tion is also rec og nized).
Using the MX82 with other DCC sys tems
Be cause the MX82 ac ces sory de coder is
fully NMRA-DCC com pat i ble,
it
can be used on lay outs operated by other com pat i ble sys tems as well.
This
is the case, among oth ers, with “Dig i tal plus” (Lenz) and Digitrax.
MX82
with
Lenz “DI GI TAL plus” Soft ware-Version 2.0 or newer :
With this sys tem num ber 1 - 255 can be used to op er ate turn outs. These
num bers are arranged to ad dresses and sub ad dresses as fol lows:
Turn outs 1 - 4 at the LENZ cab: MX82-address 1, Sub ad dress 0 - 3
Tur nouts 5 - 8 at the LENZ cab: MX82-address 2, Sub ad dress 0 - 3
Tur nouts 9 - 12 at the LENZ cab: Ad dress 3 (DE FAULT !), Sub ad dress
0 - 3 and so on.
If, for ex am ple, an MX82 is to be op er ated with num ber 10, the value for the ad dress
in CV #1 must be “3” and the value for the sub ad dress in CV #33 must be “1”.
If the MX82 servo out puts are used, note that these are as signed by de fault
to the next higher ad dress than the pro grammed de coder ad dress.
For ex am ple:
Servo out puts at the LENZ cab are con trolled with
13 - 16, with a pro grammed MX82 ad dress 3 (de fault)
17 - 20, with a pro grammed MX82 ad dress 4
and so on.
To be able to pro gram a de coder, en ter the pro gram ming mode, then
the CV mode with the cab. Pos si ble er ror mes sages (”Err 2”) due to
miss ing ac knowl edg ments (which de pends on the ac ces sory con nected
to the MX82) can be ig nored.
MX82
with
LGB:
Here as well, turn outs are not ar ranged in ad dresses and sub ad dresses but
rather num bered; prac ti cally the same as with the Lenz sys tem (see above).
Se lect the ac ces sory mode at the 55015 Uni ver sal Handy with keys F and
1. The turn out ad dress starts at 1, where:
Turn out 1: CV1=1, CV33=0
Turn out 2: CV1=1, CV33=1
Turn out 3: CV1=1, CV33=2
Turn out 4: CV1=1, CV33=3
Turn out 5: CV1=2, CV33=0
Turn out 6: CV1=2, CV33=1
etc.
Switch turn outs with left and right ar row keys.
MX82
with
In tel li box :
Intellibox also num bers the turn outs like the Lenz sys tem does (see above).
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