Hi, Serge!
Count the pins. Do pins and pin layout match?
Maybe you have to use more force - but do this only when pins and holes match exactly.

The CS3 uses a symbol where the CS2 had the text "60173" or "6017x". But in both cases these are the same 7-pin sockets.

Yep, the CAN bus uses 9-pin plugs and the socket next to the LAN socket.
Devices that connect to the CAN bus use 7-pin plugs.

There are four 7-pin sockets on the sides of each Terminal and one 9-pin socket for daisy-chaining of terminals with or without the 60126 cable.

There is the main CAN bus with 9-pin connectors and there are short branches to CAN devices with 7-pin connectors. The CS2 has both types of connectors - and you can connect a Terminal and a Booster directly to the CS2 at the same time.

As mentioned please check the pins are not bent

Photo please!


Not wanting to confuse, but to add some perspective , historic and current.

EVEN from day one the "60173" label on the 7-pin socket was a misnomer.
This is , and always has been, a "Device" port and functionally equivalent to one of the four device ports on a 60125/60145 Terminal.

As such it could/can support a MobileStation (any flovour), albeit with the addition of a 60124 (7pin to 10 pin adapter)
Since then we have had additional devices
- 60174 - booster
- 60175 - booster
- 60128 - 6021 Adapter
- 60883 - Link S88 (L88)
Any of which may connect to the so called 60173/6017x/ port

When bringing the CS3 into the discussion, one other point of note is that the ...
- 60226 "CS3" has TWO such ports
- 60216 "CS3 plus" (like any CS2 60213/4/5) has ONE such port




(And ,yes, even after 2 years marking has not fixed the 60833 typo)

Hi guys

This morning, I connected 60126 to the cs2 from 60175.

A message in German appears: '' Es ist kein gleisformatprozessor verfugbar. Sie komen mit dem gerat keine loks fahren und magnetartikel schralten '' The umlauts are missing in my German words. Sorry, but I don't know how to do them. I don't know German even though I learned it in upper secondary school in Belgium (48 years ago).

However, I think this message appears because I have not connected any rails to the cs2

You opinion about this message ?

Thank you

Thewolf

Thank you Wolfgang

Buy a cs3? As I have a cs2 that will be accompanied by software ( Itrain) for layout control, no way.

That would be money thrown out the window.

And I have great confidence in my dealer who is also my friend.

When he sends me a message (received before the cs2 problem) like this:

'' Hi Serge,

If you are going to connect the 60175 direct to the CS2 you use the connection marked 60173.

If you are using a 60145 box then you will use the connection beside the Ethernet (internet) connection.'' , is that I can go.

I probably forgot to do something like add, modify something or something in the cs2 configuration. For example, I don't remember if it is necessary to configure in the cs2 setup the
boosters.

I've been saying for years that Marklin is stingy with information in some user manuals.

What you give me as a link is wonderful but you have to be logical and serious: if I have to read all this for a simple booster it's just crazy and unreal.

The information must come to the base directly from Marklin when you buy either a cs2, cs3 or a booster

I don't worry too much. Mike will explain all this to me and, above all, he will fix it for me in less time than it takes to say it.

The only thing that bothers me is that I should certainly send him the cs2.

But since I haven't finished my renovation work yet, I'll finish it and my wife will be happy.

By the way, do you need to configure the booster(s) somewhere in the cs2 setup?


Christmas is over, so Happy New Year Wolfgang

Serge

Congretulation and meanwhile I read in a CS 2 manual that at a CS 2 a booster is registrating itself automatically.