Digital control

A constant voltage with digital commands is applied to the track. Each locomotive has a decoder with its own address and can be controlled individually, including lights and sound.

Dutch

digitaal rijden

German

Digitalbetrieb

Articles using this term

• Rail joiners and joints: current and alignment
• DCC and Märklin Motorola: digital protocols
• DC and AC: two-rail and three-rail explained
• Analogue or digital control?
• Mixing Märklin and two-rail: why it does not work
• Sidings and buffer stops: why and where
• Train runs jerkily: dirty track or wheels
• Turnout won't throw
• Passing loop: how two trains pass each other
• Hidden staging and fiddle yards: trains out of sight
• Double oval: two trains at once
• Shuttle line: running back and forth without a loop
• Locomotive stalls on the frog
• The reversing loop: how it works and how to avoid a short circuit

See also

• DCC
• Mfx
• Decoder
• Command station