Yes, keep them separate. ?I believe loconet T has 12V supply whereas loconet B doesn’t?

I know that I should just put together a test setup and confirm all of my assumptions, but I figured I would get other people's experieces first.

I want to know if I put an LED on a track bumper that I could use to indicate whether the track is powered or not (I plan to use an MQTT controlled relay to turn yard tracks on and off) will the LED trip the detection circuit of the DR4088CS?

I am also concerned about the MQTT relays, but my assumption is they are just a closed or open circuit and should not change the resistance of the circuit.
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Hello,

I think I know the answer, but I want to confirm while I am planning out my layout.

With Digitrax, there is only one LocoNet bus, and you connect the boosters and throttles, etc... all to the same connection.
But with Digikeijs, there is a LocoNet T and LocoNet B. I will have two distribution areas, one with a DR5000 and DR4088 and one with a DR5033 and DR4088.

Do I need to run two LocoNet cables between the DR5000 and the DR5033/DR4088? Put the 5033 on LocoNetB and put the 4088 on LocoNetT?

Aside: Why did Digikeijs split the LocoNet bus into two separate runs, but Digitrax keeps it all on one?

Thanks
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I upgraded my Digikeijs 5000 to the Yamorc 7001.? I connected all my Rocos to the upgraded command station.? Have been running trains with the different throttles all week.? Today I had 7 operators over to run the railroad.? The first three operators to turn on their throttles connected as expected.? However, the fourth, fifth, sixth operator to turn on their Rocos was not able to connect to the Yamorc.? The Rocos could see the Yamorc, but even after I re-inputted the password, they would not connect.??
Then when one of the original operators turned his throttle off, one of the others who could not connect before, could now connect.? Is there a limit to the number of Roco throttles that can be actively connected at one time?? Is there a software change I need to make in the Roco or the Yamorc?
And incidentally, the two TCS throttles I have did connect as expected with the three Rocos.
Thank you for any guidance on this.
Ron White

Thanks Iain.?

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I am considering buying some MTB MP5 point motors and using the YD8116 to switch them and before I do just want to know whether the YD8116 will work with an unconverted DR5000. Sorry if this is a daft question.?

John

Hi

****? This is a repost of a topic I opened on the YaMoRC forum by mistake.? Sorry for the duplication for some of you. ****

On the YD7001 we have discovered that in our environment F2 is latching / non-momentary when using the WiThrottle and Z21 / WLANmaus protocols (we have not tested others).? Has anyone else observed this ?? Does anyone know if the behaviour of F2 can be changed on the YD7001 ?

What is more interesting is if we connect the same throttle to the YD7001 through an LNWI, the behaviour is different - F2 is non-latching / momentary.

Alan, how much do you want for these modules please?
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Dave, Portland

Hi Dennis
EU59826
LokPilot 5 Micro - 6-pin w/wires.
Have two do the same.
Andrew.

You did not mention what decoders?

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Dennis Cherry
Owner/Moderator

Hi I am having some issues with programming locomotive with long address.
First if I use JMRI Decoder Pro I get a message can not communicate with the command station ,ps I changed the USB Cable.no go.with
DR5000 too JMRI .
The Second if I use My MultiMaus or Wlanmaus Program Long address I receive a message error.
If I use the Z21 App I am okay that works.
And the DR5000 too Itrain is fine.as well
?I am not sure what I have done wrong.
Andrew.

Jay,

Thanks for all the testing/information/tips you are providing. It has helped with my setup.

I have a large garden railway, O Gauge, that I use the YD7001 as the controller. I run the Z21 protocol on the YD7001. I have not disabled the Internal WifI but I will do that.

We had an operating session the other day with 13 trains running. There were 10 operators: 3 on WLANMaus, 5 using the Z21app (3 iPhone, 2 android), 2 using WiThrottle. We had no issues.

Also my layout is deadrail with the locos controlled via Wifi using WiFiTrax WFD-60 as the central controller for the battery powered locos. This is fed DCC from the YD7001.

The points/switches are also on the WiFi network with 28 points/ switches on 4 WifTrax switch modules.

I use a TP-Link DECO a mesh system which the YD7001(LAN), WFD-60, Point controllers and all the locos are connected to. I have a spare Netgear that is hardwired to one of the DECO nodes, this is what all the users connect to. I also tested this with a Google Mesh and an old Apple Time capsule for the users.

This all works very well.

Why two levels of WiFi: well the Z21 app, WLANMaus and some WiThrottles don’t cross nodes nicely on either the DECO or Google MESH. When changing to the new node, the WLANMaus need to be turned off and on again. WiThrottles need to be closed and reopened. The Z21app goes on holiday, has a few drinks, and eventually comes back to work, in its own good time. Haven’t found a way of easily getting the Z21 app to recover. Meanwhile the battery powered loco continues to run along, along with rising panic levels in the user. All fixed by having a central WiFi router.

Regards

Brian

It has been a while since I reported on our progress.? We have had a number of items we had to overcome to connect more throttles.

Karst also suggested we turn off the internal YD7001 WiFi to provide additional?resources to the LAN connected throttles using WiThrottle.

• LAN LED behaviour.?? It is very similar to what you would observe on a PC LAN adapter.? If it?is off you do not have?a connection to the LAN. If it is on solid, you have a connection but there is no activity on the YD7001 LAN adapter.? If it is flashing on and?off, that means that there is traffic from throttles connected to the WiFi/Lan and they are activity sending commands for the command station to handle.
• All routers are not equal.? We found that even modern home routers have wireless connection limits after which they become unstable, and as you add more connections, older connections are forced off.?
• UWT-100 throttles.? At this point I would not update the firmware beyond 3.0.1.?? One throttle UWT-100 was back on firmware level 2.4 and could not operate with the YD7001, so we used the TCS Depot tool to update the firmware.? After doing this it could not acquire a loco when connected to the YD7001, but could acquire a loco through our LNWIs.? We determined the firmware had somehow been updated to 3.2, when our other throttles were at 3.0.1. So we downgraded the throttle to 3.0.1 and it could then acquire locos when connected to the YD7001.? This observation has been reported to TCS. Note, firmware level 3.2 does not appear on the list of firmware releases for UWT-100s on the TCS site.

Once I digest the results from our first operations night I will post again.

Jay Lennox - Toronto

Ryan: I have read about adding resistors to the DR4088 to desensitize the device but never understood how this was to be accomplished until I saw your photos. Awesome, thanks!!!


Just to help me understand further, though, it was my impression that each of the 1-8, 9-16 detection connections were to be separate from each other; ?the way you have them soldered together to the common ‘C’ is they are all tied together, will then a detection on any one them show detection on all of them, thus making it a tad confusing as to which block is occupied?

i have 3 more dr4088lncs for sale
Please email if interested
Thanks
Alan

Weird, sorry to say.

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In a way there seems to be an Hate/Love relation between RocRail and LocoNet.

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One of my alpha-testers runs RocRail.? Guess with what... LocoNet Binary on LAN :O?

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Greets.

Karst

Welcome :)

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The comparison by itself is ok, no problem.

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But we had a lot of not so nice emails, phone calls and even "visits" of people thinking/assuming YaMoRC is "Just Another VERSION of Digikeijs" .... ;)?

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Greets,

Karst

Issue has been resolved and it appears to be part of the Loconet buffering in RocRail.? I changed things ove to LbServer and it all works again as before.??

Thanks for all the help.

Thomas