More CBUS - 2 day course

9-10th July 2019

Strode College, Somerset

The course will take place at Strode College in Somerset, as part of their Summer Workshops.

This course assumes that you have attended the Introduction to CBUS course, or that you already have a good understanding of the basics of CBUS, building modules and getting them working.

The course takes place over 2 days midweek in July.

“More CBUS” takes you on from the basics to more advanced topics.

Topics covered will include:

Recent Developments in CBUS

Connecting to CBUS using Ethernet - the CANEther module

Using the CANPi and CANPiWi modules

More practice and setup in FliM using the FCU utility

Understanding CBUS messages

Interlocking and routing using CANACE8c or CANMIO

Conditional events and interlocking with CANCOMPUTE

“Start of day” events

Short vs long events

Teaching producer events

Turnout feedback - real and virtual

Using FCU with generic dialogs

The Universal CANMIO firmware:

Inputs/outputs and servos all on one board

Concepts

Limitations

Setting up with FCU

Using CANMIO daughter boards

Changing settings in the MERG CANCMD using FCU

Full Course details are here:

More CBUS course details

Booking is direct with Strode College, follow the link below:

[[https://my.strode-college.ac.uk/online- … earch.aspx]Strode College Booking site] and enter the following course code:

SS440B for the CBUS Course

These will ensure that you pay the MERG discounted rate. Please make sure you bring your MERG Membership card with you to the course.

See also the Introduction to JMRI course, which will run on the next 2 days consecutively after this one.