This, of course, assumes you have one handy, which I don't.

I suspect the keyboard and mouse ports are permanently limited to the 100mA basic power that USB is obliged to provide without having the capability of supplying more, whereas I suspect the third port may have USB3 power capability, whiich AIUI is more than the 500mA that a USB2 port can be asked to provide.

I have 16 GB in my iPhone.
Plenty space of the new program...

Hi,



I bought one for my CS2. It was about 25€ for a TP Link. Very straight forward set up with my iPhone and it worked after 5 Minutes config work including the password change.

kind regards
Jörg

You can have one booster without galvanic insulation in your layout (60213, early 60214, 60173). As I understand it you can have several 60213/4 as long as only one of them is also used as a booster for the layout. And with some restrictions you can even use several 60213 as boosters, but without common ground on the track.

"Only one 60213" is the over-simplified version of the message.

OTOH you can only have one CS3 in the layout because of wiring limitations.

CS3 is not limited to 12 locos, but 12 can be controlled at the same time on the touch screen.

I must admit, I have been struggling to think of 32 things to do in a loco - especially a steamer.. A railcar may present more opportunity, but to be useful the symbols on the CS3 have to me more meaningful than images of light bulbs and speakers. I doubt I could remember the correct function without reference to a guide of some kind and when you have four or five of them running on a layout it would be nearly impossible to keep track of the functions - as they are rarely assigned to the same button (e.g. F7). Even the old standard of F4 for Accel/Decl delay has gone out the window with the newer releases..

It got ridiculous when when had 16 functions..................I don't have that many fingers to control them all!

The Ecos II has had the capability to have 32 Functions for some years now, as have all the ESU V4 decoders.
I just updated my M37780 ICEIII which has a V4M4 decoder to the latest ESU sound project and there are about 24 or 26 functions, but sadly no Long Distance headlights
Anyway to make it work on my CS1-R (16 Functions) I did not include the rail clack, the pantograph raise and lower noise, I put two of the four station announcements on one function that fires one in ahead and the other in reverse, and the rail squeal noise, only works in shunting mode, so we got all the desirable ones including the "Sifa" which if you activate that function and do not head the warnings, and turn the function off, the train eventually stops ! New video will be made sometime soonish, and posted in "My trains" thread.

Sorry for going off topic a bit

M* CS software upgrades are for free and you don't need to pay 29 euros. Those M* upgrades don't have the 9999 functions but have other functionalities, some bug corrections, some new bugs and lots of text in German language for an improved Google translation practice.

Uhlembrock is also very good in improving Google translation practice when browsing their site.

MTH uses lots of functions in their locos, so I suggest a reading of one of their loco manuals. They also use advanced copy paste technics to build manuals, so they reuse intellectual capital. This means means that we maybe reading a manual of a passeneger train loco and the manual is for a freight loco. Despite this the functions use is all there.

In my opinion it is better to have capability to control more functions even if for now we don't use them. In the future other needs will come for sure and they will be useful.

Relative to the CS3 I would like it to support Railcom+ (I don't know if the HW can handle it) despite at the moment I don't need it and I also would like an easier thing that is all menus and text in English or Portuguese. In German it is of little and combersome use.

Märklin had planned to charge 60213 owners for the DCC upgrade - but they gave this idea up.

Now the CS2 is out of production and maybe they will now charge for future CS2 upgrades ...

Some Intelliboxes get the upgrade for free - depends on the serial number. My Intellibox is too old and I think the upgrade is not worth the money.

But some "expert" wrote that the CS2 does not have enough memory to support 32 functions. My point was that the much older Intellibox has enough memory to support 9999 functions.

I see

Both due for delivery from June 2016.

Correct.
So there is still some hope they might come this year.