Littfinski 009903, DiCoStation (DirectCommandStation)

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

If you wanted to supervice and control your model railway with a PC-Software you had to implement in the past a command station with integrated PC-Interface or an additional external interface suitable to your command station.The DirectCommandStation (DiCoStation) offers now a low-cost command station 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. The driver software for Windows Operating Systems can be found on the attached CD “USB-Drivers for DiCoStation and HSI-88-USB”.

Features of the DiCoStation

The DiCoStation supports up to 16127 DCC-Loc addresses with up to 126 driving steps and 28 functions. For the Motorola-Operation there are with reference to the implemented decoder up to 255 addresses with 28 driving 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 operated 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). Therefore is the Software DIGITAL-S-INSIDE 2 (DSI 2) required. For the first installation will be the demonstration software supplied together with the DiCoStation.

For the permanent operation of the Software DSI 2 will be an activation code required. This code can be purchased from Company modellplan under www.modellplan.de.If you already use the Software DSI 1 for your DiCoStation you can purchase from company modellplan under www.modellplan.de an Update to DSI 2.

The DiCoStation plus Software DSI 2 can operate under Operating Systems Windows 8 (32- and 64-Bit), Windows 7 (32- and 64-Bit), Windows Vista (32- and 64-Bit) from Service Pack 2 and Windows XP from Service Pack 3.

The finished module in a case comes with 24 month warranty.

Each DiCoStation will be supplied together with a detailed Handbook for the Installation of Hard- and Software. Those Handbook can be found within the next section.

The Digital Command Station DiCoStation will be supplied as tested finished module in a case plus Software Digital-S-Inside 2 (DSI 2) in demonstration mode incl. USB-Connection Cable.