Set the address, compose the message, press the button—and the light comes on in the vehicle shown in the illustration. Trainees manually send signals that a control unit would otherwise send in milliseconds. Anyone who wants to can generate a collision and observe on the oscilloscope what happens on the line.
What the trainer does in class — shown in a minute, with sound. Subtitles can be switched on in the player.
Transmitter and receiver units are assigned their 4-bit addresses via DIP switches. The message is set in the same way—four freely definable bits. At the push of a button, it is transmitted over the bus line. The indicator LEDs show what is received; the oscilloscope shows what is happening on the line.
Art. No. 12031150 Sensors, bus and actuators on one supply. Every trainer can be measured on its own, and all of them talk over the same bus — one learning situation after another comes out of the combination. Pick one.
The temperature sensor sends a signal to the transmitter, the transmitter sends the message via the bus to the receiver—and the receiver turns on the cooling fan via the transistor.
Addressing, protocol, collisions—all invisible, all fast. This trainer slows it down to a human pace.
The exercises start with binary numbers and lead to hexadecimal values—not on paper, but on the toggle switches that actually make up the message. Suddenly, the change in number system has a purpose.
Two transmitters at the same time—and the question of what happens then. Task 9 turns a textbook concept into an observable phenomenon on the line.
Fifteen LEDs in the printed vehicle translate every message into a light effect. “Address A, Data 4” becomes a visible fog light—and a driving situation becomes a sequence of messages.
| Address width | 4bit |
|---|---|
| News Coverage | 4bit |
| Address switch | 16 × |
| Data Switch | 8 × |
| Transmit button | 3 × |
| LEDs in Vehicles | 15 × |
|---|---|
| 4 mm connectors | 16 × · Safety design |
| 2 mm connectors | 23 × · Safety design |
| Transmit Inputs | 3 × · only with 12020180 |
| Measurement | Oscilloscope · Standard workshop model |
| Power supply | 10–15V DC / 1–3 A |
|---|---|
| Recommended power supply | TS15 · 12.5 V DC / 16 A |
| Sound pressure level | < 70dB (A) |
| Dimensions per unit W × D × H | 3 × 133 × 297 × 110mm |
|---|---|
| Weight, approx. | 3.5kg |
| form factor | Table · DIN-A4 Support Frame |
| Conformity |    |
It serves as an introduction to bus systems: 80% of the tasks are at the Fundamentals level. After that, students move on to diagnostics on a real network.
Twelve thematic units cover topics ranging from number systems to individual messages to complete light functions—and conclude with the oscilloscope. Includes a digital curriculum and the accompanying E-Learning.
The changes compared with the TP-Lab Bus Fundamentals 2.0 — point by point, straight from development.
The TP-Lab Serial Communication 4.0 comes with a complete course on TPGO. It runs in the browser — tablet, phone, computer. The tasks walk through the same measurements the apprentice takes on the trainer: first the assumption, then the series of readings, then the comparison.
Fundamentals 67 % · Advanced 33 % SOLO 3–4 · Applying Bloom · EQF 2–3
Examples — in total the course is mapped to more than 90 curricula.
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For existing customers
Buy one trainer from Generation 4.0 and the e-learning courses for every predecessor model you already own are unlocked with it. At no extra cost. For the TP-Lab Bus Fundamentals 2.0 (Art. No. 12 031 050) that means 13 tasks in 21 chapters, around 5 hours of hands-on work — on the same domain, with the same progress.
Tell us your inventory and have it unlocked arrow_forwardA demonstration lasts about two hours. You send a message yourself, trigger a collision, and watch it on the oscilloscope.
Specifications, benefits, technical data and the task list — two pages, exactly as printed.
