Using one or more boosters 10762
Devide your layout into separated feeding sections. Define the sections in a way that every section
needs nearly the same amount of power. To calculate the power consumption see the following list:
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standing locos including headlights about 100 mA
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driving locos depending on the type of loco and its load 300 to 600 mA
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illuminated car per bulb about 30 mA
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digital uncoupler or smoke generator about 100 mA
If the sum of power consumption is higher than 2500 mA then the section is overloaded and must be de-
vided. Please remember that bulbs have a big tolerance in power consumption. It can reach from 25 to
70 mA. If you use the digital turnout drive 46264 or connect other switch decoders directly to the tracks
then you must calculate a reserve of 500 mA to operate them.
Those sections are without any influence on the running of the locos or on the way how to operate a
turnout. At any time and at any place of the layout always the same information is available. Therefore
you do not need to know in which section a loco is running to address and control it.
In order to install the sections switch off the layout. Devide it into separated sections by using the ROCO
plastic connectors 42611, by using sectionated track or simply cut the profiles of the tracks on both si-
des. Install a feeding track ROCO 42517 or use the wire 22217 to feed the section. Connect it to the
track out plug of the booster. The booster gets its energy via the two-ople black wire from the transfor-
mer 10718. The booster gets its information to amplify via the special wire that comes with the booster. It
connects the plug ‘booster out’ of the amplifier with the plug ‘booster in’ of the booster. The plug ‘booster
out’ of the booster can be used to connect an additional booster. A maximum of four boosters can be
used. The scheme fig. 3 on page 36 shows the wiring diagram.
IMPORTANT: Make sure that the tracks at all sections have the same polarity, so that there don’t hap-
pen short circuits if a train passes from one section to an other. If a short circuit occurs simply turn the
plug of the feeding track by 180°!
Analogue locos (locos without digital decoder) on digital tracks
The second generation of the ROCO digital system does not support controlling a loco without a digital
decoder (also the old digital is cool system didn’t). The reason is that a loco without digital decoder on a
digital layout causes an enormeously bothering high-frequency noise. There is also the danger that
small motors (originally N-scale motors) that are installed in some small H0 locos could be damaged.
ATTENTION: in no case you may plug parallelly to a digital system a normal DC-transformer to
the same tracks! The digital amplifier will be damaged!
Even locos that you already have can be equiped with a decoder. If the loco is equipped with a
NEM-plug it is very easy to install the decoder. Inside those locos you find the plug to connect the deco-
der. There is no nesessity of mechanical works because the space for the decoder is prepared. How to
install the decoder is shown in the instruction of those locomotives.
Most of the locos that are not equipped with a NEM plug can be converted to digital too. But in that case
mechanical works could be necessary and therefore it is better to ask your specialized dealer to convert
your locos.
Locos of other manufacturers can be converted to digital too. If they are equipped with a NEM-plug the
conversion is as easy as to convert a ROCO locomotive. If the loco is not prepared for the digital conver-
sion you must find a space for the decoder inside the loco or make it by mechanical works.
If you want to install the decoder with load regulation then the loco must be equipped with a DC-motor or
the AC-motor must be converted from electrical field magnets to a motor with permanent magnets.
Compatibility of the new system (RocoNet) to the old digital system (Maus-Bus)
The new Lokmaus®2 10760 and amplifier 10761 offer a lot of additional features compared to the old
ROCO ‘digital is cool’ system with the Lokmaus 10750 and the central unit 10751. The new Lokmaus®2
can control 99 locos, can program all features of the decoders and can be combined with more devices.
This extension only was possible by creating a new, extended structure of data-communication bet-
ween the Lokmaus®2 and the amplifier. We call it the RocoNet. That is why it is not possible to use the
Lokmaus®2 in combination with the former central unit 10751 (you must not try to connect it to the old
system – what is not possible because of the different plugs).
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