Hello

I would appreciate it if anybody can help me how to connect L88 (60883) to CS2 (60215) when at the same time I have already connected a booster (60173) at CS2. The manual of L88 at page 15, describes to connect L88 to the booster connection of CS2, but this port is already occupied by my booster. The only way is to purchase 60125 and what this unit does?

Thanks in advance
Tasos

Thank you very much for the prompt response... your guidance was really helpful...!!!!

Any document that shows a 9 pin glug being forced into a 10 pin socket should be looked upon with skepticism

That aside the 60125 Terminal document is dated 02/15 which is before the 60883 Link S88 was available

The list on the left of page 3 (under the (4) ) should be updated .
- Mobile Station - 60651/60652/60653 (and Trix Variants) - needs 60124 7<>10 pin adapter as shown
- Booster - 60173/60174/60175 (The 60172 never saw the light of day)
- Connect 6021 - 60128
- Link S88 - 60883

Note: The 60145 is to replace the 60125 with no other changes than the colour - It would be nice if the manual was updated .....


NO

The port labelled "Booster/60173/4/5" is a 7 pin connector and may be used for the SAME devices that may connect to the 60125(60145) but not the 6015/60145 itself

The 60125/60145 cable has a 9 pin plug and plugs int0 to System Bus (9 pin) socket of a CS2/CS3

Note: The 60125/60145 does have a 9-pin socket , this is for extending the system bus and NOT for devices
Options are
- Another Teminal (includes cable)
- A Slave CS2 (needs 60123)
- the 60126 extension cable (for either of the above two devices & other extension cables up to 100m)
You cannot use the The Terminals socket (leaving the plug unplugged to anything) and a 60123 cable to work backwards from a slave CS2.


The System Bus is bi directional, any device may send or receive data.

One important function of the Terminal is to correctly "electrically terminate" the bus this ensures clean and reliable signalling.


In general use the number of pins in the connector as a guide.
Currently with the following exceptions
a 60122 (MS-II Hub) cannot be used with a 60125/45 even though it will physically plugin with a 60124

MyView_CSArchitecture

There is a simple bus, the CAN bus.
There are CAN connections with 6 pins, 7 pins, 9 pins, and 10 pins. This adds a bit puzzling fun to the simple CAN bus concept.
Are there no 8-pin plugs yet?

Two prime reasons

1) to distinguish main bus and terminals nodes from device nodes due to electrical termination reasons
2) accommodate alternate power supplies (specifically for Mobles Stations (10 pin)

Its pretty simple really.
Core Bus
- The core bus infrastructure uses 9 pin - terminal (60125/60145), extension cables (60126)
- This is throttled to 6 pin (60123) when using additional slave Central Stations (who do not need power from the master - and, if needed, provide the needed power to further downstream nodes.
Note: the Slave CS2 also acts as a terminal note with 3 device ports (sure 2 are exclusively for Mobile stations).

Devices
- All "devices" have a 7 pin connection - the Mobile Station needs the 60124 to achieve this because it can "natively" get its power from a railbox or in the case of the 60651/60652 , it actually needs wires in the cable to provide power to the track.

Is it possible to get longer cables for than the Marklin 2 meter ones? I'd rather buy one 10 meter one than 5 2 meter cables.