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SPROG II / 3 / nano DCC

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The device

Introduction

The SPROG II / 3 and SPROG nano are relative easy to use and economically priced DCC Generator/Programmer with some extras.

Features

  • 128 loco slots
  • auto purging
  • 14, 28 and 128 speed steps
  • 28 mobile decoder functions
  • programming on the main (OPS)
  • service track programming (The S-Nano does not support a service track.)
  • stationary DCC decoders


Limitations

  • Only the default speed step is supported for rolling road: 128¹

¹) The mode word is currently not changed if the speed step of a loco is not set to 128.

How it works

Rocrail sends every 25ms a byte string like "O 73 3F CC 80" as a command to SPROG II which on its turn generates the real DCC packet on the track output.
This byte string is a hexadecimal representation of the DCC packet to be send. A complete refresh cycle will take about 4 seconds if all 128 slots are in use.


Setup

Only the IID and the serial port has to be set, the rest is fixed in the firmware of the SPROG line.

Nano

SPROG 3 and S_Nano have device name "/dev/ttyACM0" under Linux.

Pi-SPROG

The Pi-SPROG can only be used if Rocrail runs on the Raspberry Pi on which the Pi-SPROG is connected.
Pi-SPROG has the device name "/dev/ttyAMA0" under Linux/Raspbian.

Pi-SPROG 3

Use the RCAN/CBUS library with serial 115200, and as device /dev/ttyS0.

Note: The Pi-Sprog must be powered on at Raspberry Pi boot.

Pi-SPROG 3v2

The serial BPS must be set to 460800.


sprog-en.txt · Last modified: 2022/08/03 08:35 by rjversluis