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Newsgroups: alt.electronics, sci.electronics.design
From: Rich Webb <bbew...@mapson.nozirev.ten>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:24:41 -0400
Local: Sat, Jul 5 2008 7:24 pm
Subject: Re: Light timer/dimmer?
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:08:58 -0700, dpl...@radagast.org (Dave Platt)
wrote: >>I have a need to control a light fixture in my home. At a certain time I FWIW, the "regular" X10 controllers can dim from 100% to 0% but they >>need the light to come on and later on the light should go out. The problem >>is that I need it to change states slowly. Load could be anything between >>100 and 600 watts. >I believe that some of the professional-grade X10 light-dimmer control don't want to go the other way; a lamp that's off can only be set to a dimmed brightness by first turning it on (=100%) and then dimming it. Once it's on, of course, the dimming setting can be adjusted up and down; just can't go directly from off to, say, 10%. Note that the controllers I'm running are pretty old and the newer ones -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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