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way turnout: The solution

I spent countless hours of today with the connection of a way turnout at the Central Station 1 (Version 2.0). Result: It is. The disadvantage is that nowhere is exactly how to do this and note what you have to. Therefore I want to offer all model railroaders desperate detailed instructions.

Necessary equipment:

• Central Station 1 after the hardware upgrade from firmware version 2.04 (or Central Station 2) with a transformer and the two connecting cables.


• siding for Central Station (No. 24 088)


• decoder k 83 (No. 60 830 or older model with the No. 6083, but others need the plug)


• way turnout (No. 24630)


• 2x Point Machine (No. 74 490) with the included cables and connectors


• 2x cable to feed k 83 decoder , one red one brown. Must end with terminal (like those from the No. 5654) equipped, the other end to plug Art 71 411 (brown) or No. 71 415 (red). This cable with the plugs is normally at each Märklin starter set.


• Small Phillips screwdriver (for installing the switch machines and opening of the decoder k 83)


• Small flat screwdriver (for mounting the Plug on the cable ends to the point machines - with great patience and dexterity)

point machines in the way turnout assembly: provided
cable to switch machines with plugs. It is absolutely necessary to distinguish each of the two blue wires from each other. The blue wire, the closer to the yellow out in the point mechanism must get the red plug, the other blue wire to the green. Replace plug very carefully. The screw on the plug must have good contact with the stripped wire. I recommend this cable to strip about 1.5 cm and fold the wire a few times and tighten until the connector with the screw. (And true test set and after each manipulation of the cable, if the screw can not loose) set

decoder address.
Unscrew the cover of the k decoder 83 and address set to the switch board. The decoder always forgives 4 addresses: per Anschlussbuchsentriplet one. The figure (clickvergrößerbar) shows the setting of the decoder for the addresses 17-20.



is a pity that one of the instruction not to the decoder k 83 can be read directly what Switchboard setting leads to what addresses. As you look better in the manual to the normal turnout decoder (74 460) to which four addresses are the ones the first 8 switches have the same setting. Connect

point machines to the decoder: The
the way turnout switch machines must be connected to any two consecutive addresses (Anschlussbuchsentriplets). In the example above would be possible, the addresses 17 and 18 or 18 and 19 or 19 and 20 You have to drive turnout in the left-turning half-way turnout at the lower of the two addresses and connect the switch machine at the right turn half of the higher, otherwise the way turnout be switched exactly reversed. (Note: The turnout drive in the left-turning half-way turnout of the turning right half of the way turnout and turns the other way around.)

decoder k 83 with electricity:
power we can draw any section of track, even the siding. We use the red and brown wires to the terminals and connectors. The terminal is one of the red cable to the tongue of the track B, the brown of the 0th to the tongue K at the decoder 83, the connectors are in a red-brown pair of jacks, no matter what. (There are other sources from which you can perform the decoder k 83 power, I find the section of track is for us Märklin Systems fairways the easiest source.)

way turnout in the Central create station
By now one should the CS with the track plan to connect by. Solenoid select Create, and specify an address the way turnout lower of the two addresses used. The first time, it can happen that way turnout the first or first two switching actions will not (probably because she is already halfway or entirely in the selected position). Do not panic, just try different positions, from then on the coupler obey all right.