User manual

Intellibox Basic

9. LISSY Mode

In a digital system each locomotive has an address and can receive

control commands via this address. When considering full automatic

control of the trains on a digital layout, the question frequently asked

is: "Where on the layout is which locomotive at a particular time".

This can be solved by a system that reads addresses of running

locomotives, nothing prevents automatic control of a layout.

9.1 Description

LISSY consists of a tiny transmitter, which is fastened under each

participating locomotive and using infrared light sends the

locomotive address downward towards the track. Sensors are

placed in the track, to receive the radiated information from the

passing vehicle and relay it to the LocoNet. LISSY receivers located

in various places of the layout track receive the following

information:

• the locomotive address of the passing locomotive

• one of four train categories of the passing locomotive

• the driving direction of the locomotive at the detecting point

• the speed of the locomotive at the detecting point

The LISSY mode of the Intellibox can indicate the locomotive

address, train category and driving direction of a train passing the

reading point (in the middle part of the display). This allows block

sections and shadow stations to be supervised. You then know at

any time which locomotive is on which track section.

9.2 Setting LISSY Mode

The LISSY mode can be selected by repeated operation M-

key or pressing the M key immediately followed by the 4-key.

The centre of the display changes to indicate the new mode.

9.3 Operating LISSY Mode

If the LISSY mode is selected, a LISSY receiver can be monitored

in the middle part of the display:

The above display indicates that the monitored point was passed by

locomotive with address 234 with the driving direction indicated by

the arrow. The train category of the locomotive is the 2 indicated at

the end of the line. If a car with a LISSY transmitter passes a

monitored point, this is indicated by a W in the display:

If a LISSY receiver reports a vacant block section, the data in the

middle part of the display is cleared.