User manual

Introduction / Safety instruction:
You have purchased the DigitalBooster DB-2 for your model railway. The DB-2 is a
high quality product that is supplied within the assortment of Littfinski DatenTechnik
(LDT).
We are wishing you having a good time using this product!
The finished module in a case comes with a 24 month warranty.
• Please read the following instructions carefully. Warranty will expire due to damages
caused by disregarding the operating instructions. LDT will not be liable for any
consequential damages caused by improper use or installation.
Connecting the booster to the digital system:
• Attention: Before starting the installation switch off the drive voltage by
pushing the stop button or disconnect the main supply.
1. Booster connected to the command station respectively to
other boosters:
The DigitalBooster DB-2 is a power-amplifier for your digital model railway layout. It
supplies digital current to an own rail section.
The DB-2 shall be connected to the digital command station (e.g. Central Station
Control Unit, Intellibox, TWIN-CENTER, DiCoStation) or to an other booster (e.g. DB-
2, DB-4, 6015, 6017, Power 2, Power 3) with the supplied 5-poles booster-bus-
cable. The first booster shall be always directly connected to the command station via
the 5-poles cable. The second booster shall be connected to the first booster etc.
Connect the plug of the attached 5-poles booster-bus-cable to the command station or
the previous booster. The correct position of the plug at Control Unit, Intellibox,
TWIN-CENTER, Märklin Booster 6017, Power 2 and Power 3 is, that the cable at
the plug shows downwards. The booster-bus cable attached to the DB-2 has to
show upwards by connecting to Märklin Booster 6015.
If you use the DigitalBooster DB-2 on the PC-Direct Control DIGITAL-S-INSIDE
insert the plug to the pin-plug bar of the pc-adapter or to the DiCoStation so that the
white single wire of the cable corresponds to the white marking on the pin-plug
bar. The cable will go now straight away from the adapter.
The second plug of the booster-bus cable has to be connected at the DigitalBooster
DB-2 on the pin-plug-bar ST1 marked with "IN".
Please attend to the correspondence of the white single wire of the 5-poles cable with
the white marking on the pin-plug-bar ST1.
You have connected the plug of the attached 5-poles booster-bus cable correct to the
DigitalBooster DB-2 whenever the twisted cable goes straight away from the booster.
Other manufacturers supply a 5-poles ribbon-cable as booster cable. If you use
these connect the plug on the pin-plug bar ST1 so that the ribbon-cable shows to the
booster cover and has then to be directed over the plug to the command station or to
the previous booster.
Shall a following booster connected to the DigitalBooster DB-2 by using the 5-poles
booster-bus cable it has to be connected to the pin-plug bar ST2 ("OUT").
2. Booster connected to the model railway transformer:
The DigitalBooster DB-2 supplies a maximal digital current of 2.5 Ampere to the
rail.
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Digital-Profi werden!
2,5 Ampere Booster für die Digitalformate
Marklin-Motorola, mfx®, M4 und DCC.
DigitalBooster-2
DB-2
Multi-Digital
Vom Modellbahntrafo
From transformer
rot
red
braun
brown
gelb
yellow
braun
brown
Zum nächsten Booster
To next booster
Boosterkabel von
der Zentrale oder vom
vorhergehenden Booster
Boostercable from
command station or from
previous booster
Zum Gleis
To the track
weiss
white