CAN-digital-Bahn
The GleisReporter Basic - not available -
A GleisReporter Basic is a quite simple feedback module that replaces the traditional s88, but it doesn't possess any special functions like the GleisReporter deLuxe. It is, like all of the CdB-modules, very fail-safe and easy to handle. At its 16 inputs one can connect contactors, like reed contacts, photoelectric sensors, push buttons or switches. To facilitate the connection of light barriers, there is as adapter the SensorPlatine available. Details one can find here: 
Furthermore, one can upgrade with the DiodenHalter (diode trick). 
The GleisReporter Basic is also designed for the detection of track sections, however, if one needs a galvanic isolation, then the application of the GleisReporter Opto is obligatory. 
Whether a galvanic isolation is mandatory for operation depends on the system structure and the used components.
A galvanic isolation is compulsory for operation with the CAN-Bus of the Gleisbox (Trackbox) as well as with most of the CS2s and the CS3.
If one uses the GleisReporter Basic with an own systembus together with a CC-Schnitte as interface for the steering PC, the galvanic isolation is not neccessary. In this case one should consider that the used boosters need to support a common ground.
The version for the 2-conductor-modelrailroader you can find here: The StromSniffer 3A 
One very essential difference is, that within the CAN-Bus and therefore also with the GleisReporters Basic no fixed sequential arrangement has to be followed. Every GleisReporter can be installed at any place on the layout and there be connected with the bus, because before the first installation the module gets for recognition a free selectable fixed address by the DIP-switch.
By this way it is also possible to interpret or display every feedback information at any different place (device) on the bus and not only with the CS2/3 or at the PC.
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Little innovation in the course of time:
From the software-version 1.4 on a surveillance of the operation voltage is added.
If the operation voltage sinks under 9 Volt, the analysis of the tracks freezes and the yellow LED begins to blink very fast. When the voltage rises again to more than 9 Volt, the module restarts its work.
The operation voltage sinks mainly due to the many plug-and-socket connections of larger system setups.
The operation voltage for the GleisReporters results from the network cable, for this purpose there need to be a StartPunkt 2  within the system. In this regard it is essential that the operation voltage at the StartPunkt must be 12V DC. Any higher voltage will destroy the GleisReporter Basic.
The way of counting the inputs is from left 1 to right 16.
The LED on the left-hand side of the module lights after the operation voltage is turned on. Its status changes during operation together with every sent message, that means that the LED extinguishes after sending the first message and it lights anew after sending the second message etc. - It blinks in cycle while the simulations's data are sent.
It is also important that each module is connected to the ground connection of the tracks once at the middle screw terminal! If one forgets this and a train derails in a section of track monitored by the GleisReporter, this can cause damage, as the short-circuit current would flow over the bus cable in the event of such a fault. This is a known problem which all feedback systems with a common ground without galvanic isolation have.
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Adresses & Coding:
Important while coding is that the address 0 (all switches „off“) is not allowed for operation!
GleisReporters Basic with the address 0 do not send messages on the CAN-Bus.
The addressing of the GleisReporters Basic starts, like by normal counting, with the no. 1, that, how one can see from the table, corresponds to setting switch1 ON. The whole further coding follows the BCD-code manner of counting. A further coding is not necessary.
As a matter of course it is possible to do jumps during assignment of the address, so that one can partition the layout into numerary groups.
The maximum number of GleisReporters Basic that can be used in a system structure depends on various factors.
Momentarily the CS2/3 supports maximum 127 GleisReporters Basic. A mixing with s88-feedback modules is conditionally possible here, it needs to be noted only that the first GleisReporter Basic always receives a higher address than the the last s88-module. However, it should be observed that the runtimes of the messages are very different and that there can be no uniform operational picture.
With the CC-Schnitte the maximum number results from the possibilities of the used software. At present a maximum of 127 addresses can be set at the GleisReporter Basic, that corresponds to 2048 detectors. Should this not be enough, one can easily increase the number.
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GleisReporter
| DIP-switch |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
| Impermissive address |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 01 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 02 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 03 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 04 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 05 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 06 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 07 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 08 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 09 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 10 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 11 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 12 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 13 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 14 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 15 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 16 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 17 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 18 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 19 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 20 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 21 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 22 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 23 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 24 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 25 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 26 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 27 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 28 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 29 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 30 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 31 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Modul 32 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Modul 33 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Modul 34 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Modul 35 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Modul 36 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Modul 37 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Modul 38 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Simulation mode is possible with DIP-switch 8. If this is set to 1, a running light is sent via the 16 feedback addresses, that are resulting from the set module number. In the Central Station 2 this would then look as follows:
Windigipet users will find a similar function after call up the central unit. From version 2018.0 onwards there is the CAN-digital-Bahn module test.
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