The MS100 interfaces your Windows-compatible PC to your Digitrax LocoNet system. The MS100 does not come with software but programs such as WinLok may be used to control trains, program decoders, and other things via the MS100.

The MS100 is a small interface board mounted in a DB-25 cable connector. If you've looked at the PR1, you'll think it's the same thing - it is not. While the PR1 and MS100 have the same housing, the PC boards inside are different for the different task each one does.

Connect the MS100 to your PC by plugging it onto an available DB-25 serial port. Connect the MS100 to your LocoNet via a LocoNet cable (provided). Some computers have internal modems or the mouse connected to a serial port that also goes out the back. Connecting to a communications port of this type will not work - it must be a communications port that is not used by anything else. If your computer has a DB-25 serial port available for use, nothing more is needed (except software, of course) to make it work.

If your computer only has a DB9 serial port available, you'll also need a DB9-to-DB25 adapter. Refer to the DB9/DB25 Adapter page for more information.