Digital intelligent booster for DCC miniature train networks

5th ModTech International Conference - Modern Technologies in Industrial Engineering

Ursu, M.P.^1 ; Condruz, D.A.^2

University of Oradea, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, str.Universitii nr.1, Oradea

410087, Romania^1

University Emergency Hospital Bucharest, SUUB, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Splaiul Independenei No.169, District 5 Bucharest, Romania^2

关键词: Command and control;    Electrical pulse;    Electronic device;    Human operator;    Output power;    Overload condition;    Power requirement;    Railway network;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/227/1/012133/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/227/1/012133

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Modern miniature trains are now driven by means of the DCC (Digital Command and Control) system, which allows the human operator or a personal computer to launch commands to each individual train or even to control different features of the same train. The digital command station encodes these commands and sends them to the trains by means of electrical pulses via the rails of the railway network. Due to the development of the miniature railway network, it may happen that the power requirement of the increasing number of digital locomotives, carriages and accessories exceeds the nominal output power of the digital command station. This digital intelligent booster relieves the digital command station from powering the entire railway network all by itself, and it automatically handles the multiple powered sections of the network. This electronic device is also able to detect and process short-circuits and overload conditions, without the intervention of the digital command station.