Effective Installation Protection:

WD-DEC

Supervision of the pc-supported digital model rail road!

The WatchDog decoder WD-DEC is a Watchdog for your pc-supported digital model rail road. The WD-DEC stops immediately all trains by any software crash of the pc or the digital central unit.

 Non-controlled running trains and the subsequences will be a matter of the past.

Function: The WatchDog decoder shall be connected between the digital central unit and the first booster. In case the pc will not send every 5 seconds a normal switch command to the WatchDog decoder, the WD-DEC concludes that the model rail way is out of control of the pc.
To prevent the non-controlled running of trains the WatchDog decoder disconnects the boosters from the central unit. The rails will be voltage-free and all trains will stop.
 
Therefore the WatchDog decoder is not only absolutely necessary for exibitional model rail roads. The WD-DEC has been installed for example to every computer connected to the exibition model rail road at  Miniatur-Wunderland at Hamburger Speicherstadt/Germany since November 2002. By using a WD-DEC your model rail road can operate without continuous observation at your ease.
 
The WD-DEC will not only monitor the pc, but also the digital central unit at the same time. If the digital central unit is not reacting to the commands of the computer the WatchDog decoder will go into action.
 
The WD-DEC accepts Märklin-Motorola- and DCC-commands. The required data format will be adjusted with the implementation of a connector bridge.
The central unit can be connected to the  boosters directly via the 5-poles boosterbus (Märklin-Digital, Intellibox, TWIN-CENTER). Is there no 5-poles booster-bus available at the digital central unit (e.g. Lenz Digital plus), the connection to the boosters will be done via the screw-clamps on the WD-DEC.

Sample application:

One or more boosters supply the digital drive current (at the sample power 3) to the rails. The first booster will be connected over the 5-poles booster-bus via the WatchDog decoder to the digital central unit (at the sample: Intellibox).
The WD-DEC will be connected to a digital voltage and an external voltage as any other decoder.

Each WatchDog decoder WD-DEC comes with a detailed operation-respectively assembly-instruction. You can find Sample Connections here.

You will receive the WatchDog decoder WD-DEC at a low price as it is normal for the high quality LDT-Components.
The WatchDog decoder is available as a kit, as a checked finished module or as checked finished module in a case.

Each WD-DEC comes with a booster cable (1 meter length) for the 5-poles booster-bus (Märklin-Digital, Intellibox, TWIN-CENTER) for the immediate assembly.

  kit (-B) finished module
(-F)		 finished module
 in a case (-G)
WD-DEC € 50,50 € 65,50 € 68,90
  • Order codes:
WD-DEC-B (Part-No. 010011): WatchDog decoder as a kit.
WD-DEC-F (Part-No. 010012): WatchDog decoder as a finished module.
WD-DEC-G (Part-No. 010013): WatchDog decoder as a finished module in a case.
 
(For Märklin-Motorola and DCC)

WD-DEC software compatibility

The below table indicates which model railroad software supports the WatchDog decoder WD-DEC:

  Brand

 Company/Internet Site

WD-DEC support
  Railroad & Co. Freiwald Software
http.//www.freiwald.com		 yes
  Railware Railware Andrea Hinz
http://www.railware.com 		yes
  Soft-Lok Firma Schapals
http://www.soft-lok.de		 9.1
  WIN-Digipet Dr. Peterlin
http://www.win-digipet.de		 8.5
  WinDigital Dr. Abbink
 http://www.abbinkserver.com		 yes
  railX W. Schwickardi
http://www.railX.de		 not yet
  RocRail http://www.rocrail.net not yet
  Railroad Express http://www.moba-digital.net not yet
  DDL - DigitalDirect
  for Linux		 http://www.vogt-it.com/OpenSource/DDL/ not yet
  Digibahn http://www.digibahn.de not yet
  TrainWizard http://www.trainwizard.com not yet
  ModellStw http://www.modellstw.eu not yet
     
   

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