Sure Does,
As they say, you learn something new
everyday.
Thanks
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: James, Daniel
[mailto:daniel.james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 January 2002
11:00
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Dim to
0%
> Forgive
the silly question, but why do you want to do this ? Can you not dim to 0%
and
then send an off command ? or does
>dimming
to 0% change the why the light comes back on ?
I
could
Dim to Zero and then send the off command, yes it would work well when you
dim
lights to off, but as you point out the problem comes, (and
hence my
reasoning to do this) When you want to turn a light on in the middle
of
the night...
If
you
have sent the command "Off" to the LM, next time you turn it on,
to
for example a 30% preset dim, X10 sends the module the command
"On" first and then Dim to X% - so the light comes on bright and
then
dims down.
Whereas
if it has been dimmed to 0% then when you send the command - dim to 30% it
would then slowly brighten to 30% brightness. Which is great if you want to
turn a light on at night without waking your partner....
But
the
downside seems to be the very small amount of electricity wasted in the
mean
time.