Dinamo

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Dinamo = Track Driver system from Leon van Perlo


Introduction

Dinamo has a controller output for every block to manage analog and digital DCC loco's mixed together in one railroad system.
Documentation on this system is found at Leon's web site: http://dinamo.vanperlo.net/


Protocol

Setup the rocrail.ini

  <digint iid="dinamo-1" lib="dinamo" device="/dev/ttyS0"/>

So far nothing special here. Windows users will set the device value to com1 or com2.


Addressing

The Dinamo implementation in Rocrail in conform to the general Rocrail addressing.
Exceptions:

  • Trackdrivers are starting at address 0.
  • please report


Special block settings

  <bk id="B1" td="true" addr="1" port="1" ... />

The Dinamo blocks are flagged with td; TrackDriver.
The addr and port should fit your actual wiring for this block.


Special Loco settings

  <lc id="V100" addr="0" prot="A" spcnt="63" mass="5" ... />

DCC loco are configured as usual, but analog types have some special attributes:

Attribute Remark
addr set to zero
prot A = analog
spcnt Dinamo provides 63 speed steps for analog loco's
mass this determines the acceleration of the loco


Real world example

piccolo.xml
It is setup with route based events.


Hobbytrain Taurus, does not run with Dinamo

You have to remove the noise suppression capacity between the motor contacts.
The HF light current will finally destroy it.
Hobbytrain advice to remove it in all HF cases. (HF=HighFrequency)


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