System features

Driving with comfort

Digital plus was developed to be able to control several trains on the same track independently of each other at the same time. With just one track connection or circuit. This can even be used to set points and signals. The size of the layout does not matter, you just have to do justice to the power consumption. Even operators of huge show layouts (Miniaturwunderland Hamburg, Loxx Berlin) have been using digital plus successfully for a long time.

The simple travelling transformer allows control of the direction of travel and speed. In contrast, the advantages of digital plus:

The Lenz 0-gauge locomotives are already equipped with a decoder. The individual features that can be set depend on the decoder used. The decoders of the Digital plus system conform to the NMRA standard and can therefore also be operated on analogue systems.

Switching of magnetic articles

Whether points, signals, relays, motorised point machines, motors (e.g. in mills) and barriers or uncouplers, everything that can be switched on and off can be switched. This also includes relays, motorised point machines, motors (e.g. in mills) and barriers. Up to 1024 switching points can be reached via our LS 100 and LS 150 switching receivers. Short connection cables (instead of confusing cable harnesses) connect the switching objects to the switching receivers placed near them, which in turn are connected to the nearest tracks. The direct connection of incandescent lamps and LEDs (e.g. light signals) is also possible on the LS100.

Report so that you know who is in which position

Just like the prototype: inform the "dispatcher" about occupied tracks, activated contact switches or points and signal positions. Parts of the layout that cannot be seen, such as staging yards, make the signalling function indispensable.

• Up to 1024 feedback points
• The first 255 positions reserved for switch position signalling
• Modules for track occupancy detection
• Semi-automatic or fully automatic operation via connected PC system with control programme

RailCom

In addition to simple occupancy signalling, the system also enables train identification. With the innovative RailCom technology, information such as the address from the moving locomotive can be transmitted via the track to the control centre and to LRC 120 display units.

• All decoders in the + series already have RailCom functionality
• Locomotives equipped with older, non RailCom-capable Digital plus decoders can be upgraded with the extremely small RailCom module LRC 100
• Reading out the decoder data (CVs) on the main track
• Via the fast RailCombus, the data can be output to a PC via USB for further processing in suitable control programmes.

The RailCom future: information from the moving locomotive, e.g. the actual speed travelled. We are constantly developing further...

Train control...

...for safety and comfortable driving. If a signal is equipped with the ABC modules ("Automatic Braking Control"), trains brake in front of "stop" signals depending on the direction of travel and wait until the signal clears the track again.

• All locomotive functions can still be switched during the stay
• Locomotive can move backwards away from the signal
• Prototypical passage in the shunting corridor
• When travelling slowly, the ABC technology reduces the speed
• Slow speed adjustable in the decoder
• Realisation of automatic route blocks
• Option for connection to PC via interface: with suitable software as convenient on-screen interlocking, for operational safety and semi-automatic or fully automatic operation

Important note for the use of analogue locomotives!
Conventional (analogue) locomotives that are used on systems controlled with Digital plus by Lenz® produce a whistling sound. This is normal because with DCC there is a constantly changing voltage on the track, which is not processed by a locomotive decoder in a conventional (analogue) locomotive, but is applied directly to the motor. This voltage form isNot suitable for locomotives with bell-type armature motorse.g. Faulhaber motors. Locomotives with these motors mayOnly with locomotive receiver (decoder) on digital systems drive. Without locomotive receivers, these motors would be damaged or destroyed by overheating within a short time.
There are a few motor types for which the same restrictions apply as for bell-type armature motors. If in doubt, please ask the manufacturer of the locomotive.