A Revolutionary New Advanced HO Car System
Dinamo/MCC: Elevate Your Miniature World
A miniature world truly comes to life when vehicles move realistically through the scenery. While manufacturers like Faller® offer solutions such as the Faller Car System®, these often fall short in realism. Typically, model cars lack functional lights, take corners at breakneck speeds without signaling, and brake so abruptly that any virtual passengers would be thrown from their seats. Surely, there's a better way.
Enter Dinamo/MCC—a cutting-edge system designed to control the speed, lighting, and other functions of model cars with exceptional realism. Each vehicle is equipped with an addressable decoder that manages the motor, lights, and additional features. This system is fully integrated with a PC, which receives real-time position feedback from the roadway, allowing for precise control and guidance of every car in your miniature world.
How It Works
Steering Mechanism
The steering of the cars operates in a manner similar to standard systems like the Faller Car System® (FCS). A steel wire embedded in the road surface guides the car via a small magnet within the car’s steering mechanism. Alternatively, you can use a magnetic strip instead of steel wire for the same effect.
Since the cars are equipped with rubber tires, there's no electrical contact between the road and the vehicle. This design has two main implications: the car must carry its own power source, typically a rechargeable battery, and communication with the car must be wireless.
The Road
The road features an integrated transmission system, discreetly placed just below the surface. This system is simple and cost-effective to install, requiring only a set of copper wires along the road. You can create two small grooves, lay the wires, and cover them with filler, or, if the road surface is thin, affix the wires just beneath it.
The signal transmitted by this system covers the entire length of the road, ensuring continuous reception by the car regardless of its location on the surface. Unlike infrared-based systems, Dinamo/MCC is immune to interference from infrared sources such as unfiltered sunlight or remote controls, and it does not rely on line-of-sight communication.
Additionally, the road is equipped with detectors. Strategically placed reed switches are triggered by the steering magnet, providing the central control system with real-time information about the precise location of each car.
The Cars
Each car requires only two additional components for digital control: the MCC decoder and a receiver coil. The decoder handles all necessary functions and is compact enough to fit in an HO scale passenger car or N-scale trucks and buses.
Key Features:
Addressable by 4,095 unique addresses.
Integrated cruise control with a PID regulator for smooth, slow driving.
Gradual acceleration and braking with customizable profiles.
Control of headlights, blinkers, brakes, and tail lights.
Emergency stop function if the decoder loses control signals.
Sleep mode to conserve power when the system is off, with automatic wake-up upon signal reception.
Battery monitoring to ensure consistent performance.
Extensive software configuration, eliminating the need for a separate programming track.
Nine function outputs, seven of which are freely configurable.
Four-channel sequencer for custom light effects.
Operates on a battery voltage range of 0.9V to 4.1V.
