NEW     Command Station: DiCoStation  NEW

(DirectCommandStation)

for the USB-Interface with the digital formats DCC and Märklin-Motorola plus three s88 Feedback Lines!

DiCoStation with USB- and Booster Connection

If you wanted to supervice and control your model railway with a PC-Software you had to implement in the past a digital central unit with integrated PC-Interface or an additional external interface suitable to your digital central unit.

The DirectCommandStation (DiCoStation) offers now a low-cost digital central unit which will work without any push-buttons and speed rgulator because this functions will be taken over from the PC-Model Railway Software.

The DiCoStation contains a 1.1/2.0 Full Speed USB-Connection to the PC. All USB-Units require a so called USB-Unit Driver Software which can be found on the CD attached to the DiCoStation. The file has been named „USB-Drivers for DiCoStation and HSI-88-USB“. The Installation Instruction with sample screen-shots can be downloaded here.

Via the 5-poles Boosterbus-connection is it possible to supply up to 10 DigitalBooster DB-2 or compatible for the required capacity at the rails and the supply of accessory decoders such as Turnout-Decoders with digital informations.

The DiCoStation creates as multiprotocol-central-unit the data formats Märklin-Motorola and DCC which can be available as mixed formats as well.

The DiCoStation contains additionally the connections for three s88-Feedback Lines for up to 496 Feedback Contacts and one Expansion-Port for a programmed-rail-adapter for future extensions.

DiCoStation contains at the rear side the connection possibility of three s88-Feedback Lines

The DiCoStation supports up to 9999 DCC-Loc addresses with up to 128 drive steps and 28 functions. For the Motorola-Operation there are with reference to the implemented decoder up to 255 addresses with 27 drive steps and 8 functions possible.

The DiCoStation will support within the DCC format 2048 turnout addresses. For the  Märklin-Motorola-Data Format will be 320 turnout -addresses supported.

Software-Updates for the DiCoStation can be carried out directly from the PC via the USB-Interface.

The DiCoStation can be used with any Model-Railway-Software which supports the data-protocol (P50) of the Märklin-Interface 6051 (only Märklin-Motorola-Data Format) or even better the extended data-protocol (P50x) of the Intellibox (Märklin-Motorola- and/or DCC-Data Format).  For that is the starter-package of the Software DIGITAL-S-INSIDE  (DSI) required. We offer this package together with the DiCoStation under the Order Code 009904. The DSI-Manual (in German language only) for downloading can be found here.

At the time is it possible to operate the DiCoStation plus Software DSI with the PC-operating systems Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Sample Connections for the DiCoStation for downloading can be found here!

Each DiCoStation will be supplied together with a detailed Handbook.

DiCoStation-G+DSI (Part No. 009904): DirectCommandStation (DiCoStation) as finished module in a case plus software DSI for the adaption of the DiCoStation to your model-railway-software.

 DiCoStation-G (Part No. 009903): DirectCommandStation (DiCoStation) as finished module in a case as second unit without DSI software.

Available ex warehouse.

Subject to technical changes and errors.

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