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Locked Message to Mike Regarding BDL16

Bob Blackwell
 

Mike,

I read your message earlier but when I went to respond, Bill had
decided to remove it from my Hotmail inbox. Because of this I find
it necessary to respond here. Hope that's okay with you and the list!

The BDL16 (or BDL162 as it's now being sold as) has a very limited
set of programmable features. Some of those which may be of interest
to you are;

- Set up for operation with direct home wired layouts or common rail
wired layouts

- Detection sections show occupied when zone power is off or no
forced occupied detection when zone power is off

- Allow this BDL16 to be the master or do not allow this BDL16 to be
master

- Use regular threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 22 kohms
minimum) or high threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 10 kohms
minimum)

- Make all option switches factory default

Hope this helps. If you wish more detail, please feel free to email
me off-list. Hopefully Bill won't object this time.

Bob
Mike Davison
 

Thanks, Bob. That answers my question about why one would want to program a
BDL16.

On Thursday 26 September 2002 05:46 pm, Bob Blackwell wrote:
Mike,

I read your message earlier but when I went to respond, Bill had
decided to remove it from my Hotmail inbox. Because of this I find
it necessary to respond here. Hope that's okay with you and the list!

The BDL16 (or BDL162 as it's now being sold as) has a very limited
set of programmable features. Some of those which may be of interest
to you are;

- Set up for operation with direct home wired layouts or common rail
wired layouts

- Detection sections show occupied when zone power is off or no
forced occupied detection when zone power is off

- Allow this BDL16 to be the master or do not allow this BDL16 to be
master

- Use regular threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 22 kohms
minimum) or high threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 10 kohms
minimum)

- Make all option switches factory default

Hope this helps. If you wish more detail, please feel free to email
me off-list. Hopefully Bill won't object this time.

Bob




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My BDL16's & PM4's are installed in an inconvenient place under the layout, so being able to configure them without having to crawl under and push buttons seemed like a good idea.

(Another) Bob

At 6:08 PM -0700 9/26/02, Mike Davison wrote:
Thanks, Bob. That answers my question about why one would want to program a
BDL16.

On Thursday 26 September 2002 05:46 pm, Bob Blackwell wrote:
> The BDL16 (or BDL162 as it's now being sold as) has a very limited
set of programmable features. Some of those which may be of interest
to you are;

- Set up for operation with direct home wired layouts or common rail
wired layouts

- Detection sections show occupied when zone power is off or no
forced occupied detection when zone power is off

- Allow this BDL16 to be the master or do not allow this BDL16 to be
master

- Use regular threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 22 kohms
minimum) or high threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 10 kohms
minimum)
> - Make all option switches factory default
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Bob Jacobsen (Bob_Jacobsen@..., 510-486-7355, fax 510-495-2957)
Mike Davison
 

Thanks, Bob. I'm considering adding Digitrax transponding to my EasyDCC system
so am paying attention to discussions about Digitrax transponding. Digitrax
evidently designed their transponding hw to work with other DCC systems so
this should work. It looks like the BDL16 will provide output to non-Loconet
devices (like SurroundTraxx from SoundTraxx).

So, I'm being lazy now and not looking at the source code, but how is the
BDL16 programmed? Does it appear to the command station as a stationary
decoder? I'm wondering if I can program the BDL from my EasyDCC command
station or if more Digitrax hw is required.

Thanks,
Mike

On Friday 27 September 2002 07:45 am, Bob Jacobsen wrote:
My BDL16's & PM4's are installed in an inconvenient place under the
layout, so being able to configure them without having to crawl under
and push buttons seemed like a good idea.

(Another) Bob


At 6:08 PM -0700 9/26/02, Mike Davison wrote:
Thanks, Bob. That answers my question about why one would want to program a
BDL16.

On Thursday 26 September 2002 05:46 pm, Bob Blackwell wrote:
> The BDL16 (or BDL162 as it's now being sold as) has a very limited
set of programmable features. Some of those which may be of interest
to you are;

- Set up for operation with direct home wired layouts or common rail
wired layouts

- Detection sections show occupied when zone power is off or no
forced occupied detection when zone power is off

- Allow this BDL16 to be the master or do not allow this BDL16 to be
master

- Use regular threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 22 kohms
minimum) or high threshold sense DCC occupancy (approx 10 kohms
minimum)
> - Make all option switches factory default

--
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Bob Jacobsen (Bob_Jacobsen@..., 510-486-7355, fax 510-495-2957)


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At 9:50 AM -0700 9/27/02, Mike Davison wrote:
Thanks, Bob. I'm considering adding Digitrax transponding to my EasyDCC system
so am paying attention to discussions about Digitrax transponding. Digitrax
evidently designed their transponding hw to work with other DCC systems so
this should work. It looks like the BDL16 will provide output to non-Loconet
devices (like SurroundTraxx from SoundTraxx).
A BDL16 (or the current version BDL162) can work independently of a Digitrax command station. So it should be possible to hook up a no-command-station-LocoNet for Surroundtraxx.

So, I'm being lazy now and not looking at the source code, but how is the
BDL16 programmed? Does it appear to the command station as a stationary
decoder? I'm wondering if I can program the BDL from my EasyDCC command
station or if more Digitrax hw is required.
It's programmed through the LocoNet itself, not like a decoder. So you'll also need a MS100 or LocoBuffer (and I'm not sure that the MS100 will work on a Linux machine, as it's an odd baud rate). But if you get a BDL16 (_not_ BDL162) it comes pre-programmed to be the master, which is what you're looking for.

And there's probably somebody in the neighborhood with a Digitrax throttle who'd be happy to come over and help.

Bob
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Bob Jacobsen (Bob_Jacobsen@..., 510-486-7355, fax 510-495-2957)
Mike Davison
 

Thanks. I'm looking to invest in minimal Digitrax hw so it looks like I wont
be able to program the BDL* with DecoderPro. Bummer, but it sounds like
programming it is pretty much a one-time deal so it shouldn't be too bad.

Time to give the latest DecoderPro some Linux+EasyDCC time again!

cheers,
Mike

On Friday 27 September 2002 10:30 pm, Bob Jacobsen wrote:
At 9:50 AM -0700 9/27/02, Mike Davison wrote:
Thanks, Bob. I'm considering adding Digitrax transponding to my EasyDCC
system
so am paying attention to discussions about Digitrax transponding. Digitrax
evidently designed their transponding hw to work with other DCC systems so
this should work. It looks like the BDL16 will provide output to
non-Loconet
devices (like SurroundTraxx from SoundTraxx).
A BDL16 (or the current version BDL162) can work independently of a
Digitrax command station. So it should be possible to hook up a
no-command-station-LocoNet for Surroundtraxx.

So, I'm being lazy now and not looking at the source code, but how is the
BDL16 programmed? Does it appear to the command station as a stationary
decoder? I'm wondering if I can program the BDL from my EasyDCC command
station or if more Digitrax hw is required.
It's programmed through the LocoNet itself, not like a decoder. So
you'll also need a MS100 or LocoBuffer (and I'm not sure that the
MS100 will work on a Linux machine, as it's an odd baud rate). But
if you get a BDL16 (_not_ BDL162) it comes pre-programmed to be the
master, which is what you're looking for.

And there's probably somebody in the neighborhood with a Digitrax
throttle who'd be happy to come over and help.

Bob
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