Summary of Contents for Lenz DIGITAL plus LV101
- Page 1 Power Station LV101 • 52 Volt/Amp DCC Power Station • Adjustable DCC Track Voltages • Opto-isolation for Safety • Clean DCC Track Power • Designed to meet NMRA Control Bus draft RP Information LV101 Art. No. 22101 March 1998 DIGITAL plus...
- Page 2 Power Station LV101 The power station LV101 The DIGITAL plus LV101 Power Station is the “successor” of the previously available LV100. New features include user selectable DCC track voltages, a fault detection LED, and a new RJ-45 plug-in connector. This connector is provided now for new devices currently under development.
- Page 3 Power Station LV101 Connecting the Power Station The LV101 Power Station takes its energy from a user supplied AC transformer for model railroads. For maximum power, the LV101 should be located near the track being powered, so that the connection between the LV101 and the track is kept as short as possible.
- Page 4 Six-Pin I/O - Port The new six-pin phone type jack located on the rear of the LV101 is provided for future use. Lenz GmbH is planning ahead for future development. The wire connections for this I/O port are shown in Figure 4.
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Page 5: Installation Considerations
Power Station LV101 Figure 4: Wire connections for the LV101 6 pin -I/O port Pin # Color Description Pin 1 White "C" Control Bus Connection Pin 2 Black Ground Pin 3 - RS-485 Pin 4 Green + RS-485 Pin 5 Yellow +12 volts Pin 6... - Page 6 Lenz has chosen to leave the option of the location of the common up to the individual operator. The LV101 is completely opto-isolated. This allows you to use one of the rails (called common rail) for your common.
- Page 7 Power Station LV101 Supplying power to a large model train layout As in conventionally operated layouts, a sufficient power supply is prerequisite for the safe function of a digital layout. Locomotives, interior lights in rolling stock, turnouts, signals etc. all get their power from the Power Station, along with their commands.
- Page 8 Power Station LV101 needs of your layout. The power blocks of several LV101 must necessarily have the same polarity. Terminal J of one and terminal J of the next LV101 must therefore be connected to the same rail. Otherwise there will be a short when passing a dividing gap.
- Page 9 Figure 5 Connecting track voltage for large scale railroads Connecting a reverse loop Lenz GmbH produces an automatic reversing module (LK100) which can be used to easily wire complex automatic reversing sections. While these units are invaluable in some cases they are not absolutely needed for DCC operations.
- Page 10 Power Station LV101 digital operations the direction of travel is dependent on the locomotive and not track polarity, the locomotive will not change its direction of travel when the polarity within the reverse loop is changed. Isolated Track Contacts Twin-coil Relay Power Supply for Relays Figure 6: Wiring of Reverse Loops...
- Page 11 Power Station LV101 decoder equipped), since their direction of travel is dependent on track polarity. Connecting the LV101 to Other DCC Systems The LV101 has been designed to be used with a broad range of NMRA DCC systems. Following are diagrams to assist you in connecting the LV101.
- Page 12 Power Station LV101 Warranty Lenz GmbH does everything it can do to ensure that its products are free from defects and will operate for the life of your model railroad equipment. From time to time even the best engineered products fail either due to a faulty part or from accidental mistakes in installation.
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