Help Function; Operation Locomotives/ Trains; Setting Up Mfx-Locomotives; Setting Up Locomotives With Delta Or Digital Decoders - Märklin Central Station Bedienungsanleitung

3.2.7 Help Function

The help function is available at all times.
Touching the symbol on the Central Station's
screen, like the symbol next to this text, will
open up a window that will give you explana-
tions and help for the menu that you had acti-
vated before calling up the help function. The help symbol turns dark
after you have activated the function. Pressing on the help function
again will take you back to the last menu you had activated.
3.3 Operating Locomotives / Trains
3.3.1 Setting up Mfx Locomotives
Generally, mfx locomotives register themselves on the Central Station.
All you have to do is place the locomotive on the track. Make sure
when doing this that the layout has power flowing to it (release
mode). The locomotive may not be initially place in an area of the
track that is not continuously supplied with electrical power (examp-
les: signal block, storage siding where you can turn the power off,
Booster plugged into the connection socket, see Section 2.2.10, etc.)
or an area of the layout that is connected through the Connect 6017
unit (item no. 60129) to a 6015 or 6017 Booster.
The transfer of data from the mfx locomotive to the Central Station
and reverse takes about 1 minute. If the mfx locomotive is placed on
the layout for the first time, while the latter is in the middle of ongoing
operations, then the registration process may take up 3 minutes.
Two mfx symbols will appear in the upper menu list on the screen
while an mfx locomotive is being registered. These symbols report
the progress of the registration process. When these symbols are
completely filled in with black, you must press on one of the two
symbols. The newly registered locomotive is taken into the locomo-
tive controller to which you have assigned it, and it is also taken into
the locomotive list at the same time.
Mfx locomotives can only be registered one after the other the first
time out. The registration process for another locomotive cannot take
place until the first locomotive is completely registered.
Tip: Place locomotives to be registered one after the other on the
layout. If several locomotives to be registered are on the track
at the same time, the complete process can take considerably
longer to complete.
Touching this symbol activates the change from one locomotive
controller to the other.

3.3.2 Setting up Locomotives with Delta or Digital Decoders

The Central Station is also able to control the different Märklin Delta
or Digital decoder generations, which are designed for operation with
Märklin Delta or Märklin Digital (both the 6020 Central Unit and the
6021 Control Unit and their variants).
The following steps can be done on the right or the left side of the
train controls on the Central Station. The operation steps on the left
side of the train controls are demonstrated by way of example.
Press the menu button in the upper left
corner of the display screen. A selection
menu will appear on the display screen
next to this button. The arrow in the line
"New Locomotive" indicates that addi-
tional selection menus can be opened
by selecting these lines. There are two
different ways to select the different
submenus:
a: Direct selection by touching the
screen at the line of text in question.
b: By turning the left control knob on the Central Station. The black
cursor bar will then wander from line to line. The submenu on
which the black cursor bar is now standing is activated by pres-
sing on the control knob.
Select the line "New Locomotive" and activate the submenu. Two new
selection fields will appear, "enter manually" and "from database".
Enter manually – The entry in the loco-
motive list (name, address, etc.)
is generated completely by you
the operator.
From database – The locomotive data
is generated by going into a
database integrated into the
Central Station. This database
has factory data for many of the
earlier Märklin models.
Variation 1: From database
Select the line "from database" either with the control knob or by
directly touching the screen. A menu with different entries from the
integrated database will appear.
1 = Locomotive selected
2 = Data lines sorted by item number
3 = Data lines sorted by name
4 = End without selecting a locomotive
5 = Select current data line
6 = Go down one data line
7 = Position indicator for the entire list
8 = Go up one data line
Selecting a data line:
Select the desired locomotive by moving the selection bar cursor (1)
up and down by turning the control knob and then pressing down on
the control knob.
Or, the data line list can be navigated by pressing on the arrow but-
tons (6 or 8). The data line you want will be selected by touching the
check mark field (5). The process can be ended without selecting a
locomotive by touching the "x" field (4).
Locomotives in the database can be sorted with two different criteria.
Either by the Märklin item number (touch button 2) or by the name
suggested by Märklin (touch button 3). Tip: The factory often assigns
names from the class number or from a well known nickname for the
prototype.
If you press the first letter or number on the keypad depicted in the
lower part of the screen, the display for the data line that begins with
this letter or number will appear.
Example: The list is sorted by names. If you press on the key for "8",
the class 80 will appear from the different data lines, since it is the
first data line that begins with the number "8".
After the data line has been selected, it is taken directly into the
locomotive controller part of the Central Station. If you want to edit
locomotive data such as the name, function button assignment, or
the address, etc., please read the notes in section 3.3.4.
Note: In contrast to the Mobile Station the Central Station will
accept several entries in the locomotive list with the same
address! No locomotives with the same identical address
can be controlled simultaneously. A message to this effect
will be shown on the locomotive controller part of the
screen. This also holds true for locomotives with a consecu-
tive address (model with two addresses).
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