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Offline biswasg  
#1 Posted : 27 July 2019 07:33:13(UTC)
biswasg

Switzerland   
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Location: Geneva, Switzerland
I am looking for a comprehensive guide on the Märklin digital system. Something that explains, CS, decoders, controllers, braking modules, S88 and their functional interaction in a model layout?
Gautam
Offline amartinezv  
#2 Posted : 27 July 2019 09:41:55(UTC)
amartinezv

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Location: Madrid,

Hello,
On the web there are many sites where they explain everything or almost everything about a digital system. Märklin has also published several books about his digital systems. I also have a lot on this topic on my website you can see it here.

http://www.raildigital.es/davidruso/arqdigital/arqdigital.html

is in Spanish but you can easily translate it with some online translator for example with this one

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Best regards
Antonio Martínez
marklin, IB, era 3, Train controller
www.raildigital.es/davidruso
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Offline TEEWolf  
#3 Posted : 27 July 2019 17:21:23(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: amartinezv Go to Quoted Post

Hello,
On the web there are many sites where they explain everything or almost everything about a digital system. Märklin has also published several books about his digital systems. I also have a lot on this topic on my website you can see it here.

http://www.raildigital.es/davidruso/arqdigital/arqdigital.html

is in Spanish but you can easily translate it with some online translator for example with this one

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Best regards


Indeed many websites for the question of @biswasg can be found in the internet. But yours is not bad at all. Unfortunately I did not obtain my knowledges in Spainish after university. So nowadays it is very hard for myself to read Spanish text.

But @biswasg is a Swiss guy Smile - do we offer him a website from another swiss guy.

https://stayathome.ch/

And he starts off with the basics all around a MRR (Grundlegendes rund um die Modelleisenbahn).

There he will find everything about digital and even more for a MRR. And Swiss people are able to speak German as well.Wink
Online Unholz  
#4 Posted : 27 July 2019 20:50:47(UTC)
Unholz

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Originally Posted by: TEEWolf Go to Quoted Post
And Swiss people are able to speak German as well.Wink

Not all of them: We have four official languages in Switzerland (German, French, Italian, and Romansh. And since @biswasg lives in Geneva, it is quite likely that he mostly speaks French. Wink

Perhaps this document in French is a bit useful, although it is rather old: http://al1marklin.free.f...cuforum/Marklin_0308.pdf
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Offline TEEWolf  
#5 Posted : 27 July 2019 21:47:50(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Unholz Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: TEEWolf Go to Quoted Post
And Swiss people are able to speak German as well.Wink

Not all of them: We have four official languages in Switzerland (German, French, Italian, and Romansh. And since @biswasg lives in Geneva, it is quite likely that he mostly speaks French. Wink

Perhaps this document in French is a bit useful, although it is rather old: http://al1marklin.free.f...cuforum/Marklin_0308.pdf


Correct, but don't you think, a well educated Swiss person shall speak more than 1 language? And indeed I saw at the Swiss TV, even people sitting in the Swiss parliamnet sometimes are not really fluent in German/and or Italian language, if they are originated from the French part of Switzerland. Romansh can be apologized, because of its quota at the total population. On the other hand it always is impressive, how many Swiss people are able to speak even 4 or 5 languages fluent.
Offline David Dewar  
#6 Posted : 27 July 2019 23:30:13(UTC)
David Dewar

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Slightly off topic but I had a great holiday in Lucern many years a go and almost everybody in shops etc spoke English. Very friendly people.
Take care I like Marklin and will defend the worlds greatest model rail manufacturer.
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Offline biswasg  
#7 Posted : 28 July 2019 08:09:55(UTC)
biswasg

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Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Dear Antonio and Stefan,
Many thanks for the links. I read Antonio’s summary which was very helpful. I am not Swiss but am here for work in an International Organization in Geneva. I speak English, but also a bit of French so will take time to read the French book. I did not find in the Markli catalogue any English version of a similar book!
David, indeed Switzeralnd is a very beautiful country and in most touristic places, one can manage with English.
Gautam
Gautam
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Offline TEEWolf  
#8 Posted : 28 July 2019 18:45:26(UTC)
TEEWolf


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Originally Posted by: biswasg Go to Quoted Post
Dear Antonio and Stefan,
Many thanks for the links. I read Antonio’s summary which was very helpful. I am not Swiss but am here for work in an International Organization in Geneva. I speak English, but also a bit of French so will take time to read the French book. I did not find in the Markli catalogue any English version of a similar book!
David, indeed Switzeralnd is a very beautiful country and in most touristic places, one can manage with English.
Gautam


You should have told us before you are better in English than in French. There is a Märklin book in English available:

Article No. 03092 - "Controlling Digitally with the Central Station 3"

https://www.maerklin.de/...s/details/article/03092/

Märklin offers another book especially for "Gauge H0 - Article No. 03070 Book "Returning/Changing Over to Digital Model Railroading""

https://www.maerklin.de/...s/details/article/03070/

Unfortunately this book is only available in German.

Here are 2 brochures from Märklin which you got and get buying a starter or start-up set and they are explaining Maerklin digital.



(old version)

The advantge: they are written in 4 or 5 different languages.



BTW: I can recommend this translator software

https://www.deepl.com/translator
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Offline kiwiAlan  
#9 Posted : 28 July 2019 19:24:14(UTC)
kiwiAlan

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I don't recall anyone posting about the original 0303 digital book. I was pretty sure someone had posted a PDF copy to the forum some time back, but the only reference I can fine is this one where the pages are imaged.

Offline TEEWolf  
#10 Posted : 28 July 2019 20:18:39(UTC)
TEEWolf


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Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Go to Quoted Post
I don't recall anyone posting about the original 0303 digital book. I was pretty sure someone had posted a PDF copy to the forum some time back, but the only reference I can fine is this one where the pages are imaged.



Hello Alan,

wow good book. Never seen before. But I found this book as a PDF file in the Internet at marklinisterne.dk

http://www.marklinistern...gDigitallyControlled.pdf

Best Regards

Wolfgang

BTW see this link to Ebay, once it was sold for almost 92 €!!!

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/...ition-BX26-/171240824051
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Offline kgsjoqvist  
#11 Posted : 28 July 2019 22:50:16(UTC)
kgsjoqvist

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Originally Posted by: TEEWolf Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: kiwiAlan Go to Quoted Post
I don't recall anyone posting about the original 0303 digital book. I was pretty sure someone had posted a PDF copy to the forum some time back, but the only reference I can fine is this one where the pages are imaged.



Hello Alan,

wow good book. Never seen before. But I found this book as a PDF file in the Internet at marklinisterne.dk

http://www.marklinistern...gDigitallyControlled.pdf

Best Regards

Wolfgang

BTW see this link to Ebay, once it was sold for almost 92 €!!!

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/...ition-BX26-/171240824051


A good book, but seriously out of date. For anyone starting the digital adventure now there is much better to find more recent information...

K-G / H0 and Z model train user
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