loconet:transponding-en
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Transponding
Transponding & Rocrail
Transponding can be ordered to the same category as Lissy and RailCom but uses another technique.
With the basic transponding decoders the following info is received by Rocrail:
- decoder address
- BDL168 board number
- zone A, B, C, D, E, F, G or H
More advanced transponding decoders can supply also:
- operations mode readback of decoder CVs
- information about the speed and other status data
- surround sound system support
Addressing
To avoid conflicts with the current sense addressing bus 2 is used for the transponder receivers.
So if the board address is set to 1 the first transponder receiver will report in Rocrail with address 2-1, and the first sensor with address 0-1. (bus-address)
The BDL168 transponder addresses increment by 2, not 1. This means with board address 2 that Zone A is 1, Zone B is 3, etc. See this table:
| Board 1 RX's | ||
|---|---|---|
| Zone | Bus | Address |
| A | 1 | 1 |
| B | 1 | 3 |
| C | 1 | 5 |
| D | 1 | 7 |
| E | 1 | 9 |
| F | 1 | 11 |
| G | 1 | 13 |
| H | 1 | 15 |
Recommended settings
BDL168
| OPSW9 | Closed (No message sent if un-powered) |
| OPSW36 | Closed (Ignore GPON) |
| OPSW37 | Closed (Long delay for sensors) |
| OPSW38 | Closed (Extra long delay for sensors) |
| OPSW39 | Closed (Verbose mode enabled) |
| OPSW42 | Closed (Respond also to first interrogate command) |
| OPSW43 | Thrown (Filter for transponding enabled) |
| OPSW44 | Closed (Extra filter for transponding) |
| OPSW45 | Closed (Don't send transponding messages at GPOFF) |
Test Setup
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loconet/transponding-en.txt · Last modified: 2018/11/12 08:56 by 127.0.0.1