Hi all,

I want to know if data on MFX Telemetry are useful. I saw a video on YouTube, from where I understood you are able to see total distance, time decoder have been used etc.

I’m not able to find any explanations/ translation of Telemetry data.

Have a great day.

No.

Telemetry can just as well be used as a word to describe a wired or optical fiber connection.

Per.

essentially, nothing really useful, no.

If they had known anything about digital layout control they may have reported back actual current speed, direction and function settings, etc.

Actual speed (not speed step) would really make smooth and accurate digital control a possibility.

From Wikipedia

"Telemetry is the collection of measurements or other data at remote or inaccessible points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment for monitoring"

"Although the term commonly refers to wireless data transfer mechanisms (e.g., using radio, ultrasonic, or infrared systems), it also encompasses data transferred over other media such as a telephone or computer network, optical link or other wired communications like power line carriers. Many modern telemetry systems take advantage of the low cost and ubiquity of GSM networks by using SMS to receive and transmit telemetry data."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry

Yes, telemetry is gathered and transmitted in many forms of motor racing including Formula One. It is used in other sports such as Cricket for real time ball tracking for decision reviews. Telemetry is widely used in space programs and was very much depended on in the American Apollo moon flights. Remember the pictures of all those consoles in Mission Control? They were displaying telemetry data from the spacecraft.

Telemetry also has wide use in industrial applications.

Having cleared that up, we can get back to the topic at hand.

No, no no!
The word is used for data transmission in the industry for all kinds of automatizations and data adquisition (cabled and wireless). The use in racing sports (and model railroading) would be an insignificant amount of total telemetry used in the world.

PS: I´ve been working with industrial automatization for the last 30 years. PLCs and SCADAs. And while there currently is a clear tendency to transition from wired to wireless installations, the word "telemetry" has existed there since... always.

I did check with the V 200 and on the fourth row it stand receiving error at 87.
What is that?

Yes it does. Thanks. Unfortunately others here trying to capture your thread for off topic stuff, especially attacking members again, instead to help you answering your question.

For myself the name telemtry for this point is not really a good one and can be misunderstood. Also I was not aware about this point. But I have to confess, I was not yet very much working with this configuration tab. Especially after I destroyed my decoder of my Insider V 320 (39320) by updating its decoder. It made me more sensitive for this section.

Also this tab varies from decoder to decoder. After seeing your picture I checked my just running 103 003-0 (31014-01 is a mfx loco not listed in M database). It does not have this telemetry point in its configuration section. At once I rerailed my 103-101-2 (26680 is a mfx+ loco) from the Lufthansa Express and whoops this loco has this telemetry tab on its decoder.

Then I checked your mentioned Stummi thread too, but it is not really helpful. The major problem for me is a value without any unit details. As one of the Stummi member wrote, he asked Maerklin and they gave him unit details, but they do not align with the values by his opinion. So it looks like even Maerklin does not know all by themselves about its decoder either.

I looked through all the books about the CS 3 and found only the information as given in the Stummi thread. Lenght related values are in cm. Time related values are in seconds. But everywhere the remark for this blue highlightend tab, only be used by experienced users understanding what they are doing. This is not a sufficient documentation.

Also often it was refered to the decoders manual. But I never have seen such a manual for a built in decoder. I only saw a manual for conversion decoder sets.

https://static.maerklin....49aec5e3521564554225.pdf

But these manuals are pretty detailed. Maerklin told me once in the new locos are built in a version of their new mSD/3 decoders. Thre are little differences. But in general they are equal. Perhaps you get a look in one of these manuals, therefore your loco (37923) is a pretty new one. It could be equipped with a mSD/3 "light" decoder. Light, because your loco does not have a decoder inside understanding the DCC format.


BTW while it just happened to me. Never delete a mfx decoder unit (loco or coach) from your CS 3 while this decoder is off your tracks. Only delete it, if it is standing on your layout tracks! Otherwise this mfx decoder is not reregistering again. Found a thread about it at Stummis too.

https://www.stummiforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=169653

In the thread only locos are mentioned, but for me it happened with a front forward cab coach with a mfx decoder inside. Same result. Not yet reregistered at my CS 3, although the coach is fully functioning and registering at my MS 2 and the track box. So the coach cannot be faulty. It must have something to do with the CS 3. I have to do further investigations.

All this not a fully satisfying answer, but nevertheless it may help you for a small step further.

Hi TEEWolf,

Thanks for the elaborate answer which made me a little wiser. I will therefore contact Märklin in the near future and see if they can provide a clear answer.

easy, Sir !!

Hi
Apparently this is also the case in Europe's english where Telemetry (nice- looking word) was used instead of statistics (boring word).
Cheers
Jean

Maybe understandable worldwide; but here both insulting and clearly not understood by yourself.

Per.