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cajaeger		#1 Posted : 23 October 2019 11:55:28(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/10/2019(UTC) Posts: 1 Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg		Hi, after selling my Intellibox2, I‘m now a proud owner of a brandnew Central Station 3 I have some understanding problems with the different driving steps. I know that mfx has 126 steps. My questions: - can I drive with CS3 an mfx-Decoder with the Motorola2-Format and 28 steps? - as I have lot of locos with ESU Lokpilot4 (no mfx), can I drive with CS3 a Lokpilot4 with the Motorola2-Format and 28 steps? thank you Greetings from Luxembourg Carlo
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H0		#2 Posted : 23 October 2019 12:31:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 15,441 Location: DE-NW		Hi! Originally Posted by: cajaeger - can I drive with CS3 an mfx-Decoder with the Motorola2-Format and 28 steps? - as I have lot of locos with ESU Lokpilot4 (no mfx), can I drive with CS3 a Lokpilot4 with the Motorola2-Format and 28 steps? No. AFAIK the only Märklin controller ever that supports MM with 28 steps is the Central Station 60212. The CS2 uses MM 27 for all MM decoders - sometimes this has disadvantages for decoders that do not support MM 27. Not sure about the CS3, but would assume it also uses MM27 for all MM decoders. Since ESU decoders do not support MM 27 AFAIK, you will only get 14 steps with those. Better use DCC for all decoders that support DCC and MM.
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Goofy		#3 Posted : 24 October 2019 14:11:08(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 12/08/2006(UTC) Posts: 9,273		If you set your locomotive (Märklin) which also support DCC protocol you can choice 28 or 126 speed steps.
		H0 DCC = Digital Command Control


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