Re: LD11 soft start shortcut anyone ?

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doogie Brodie" <ukhad@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] LD11 soft start shortcut anyone ?


> egelbeertje wrote:
>
> > As it happened yesterday I switched on the lights and the LD11
> > driving the lighting started its usual cycle of soft starting.
> > Unfortunately the previous "memory" setting was at 10%
light level so
> > me stumbling down the hallway - thinking the light would go 100%
-
> > did not see kiddy toys on the way. Disaster struck in the form of
> > flat matchbox cars. and a lot of $%#@&*^
> > Does anybody know of a way of shortcutting the softstart (without
> > using all lights on command or HV control to set dim level) or
making
> > the softstart faster (like having 1 switch for dim up/down
another
> > for on/off) on these things ?
>
> Short answer no.
>
> Long answer, buy C-Bus which has fully programmable ramp rates ;)
>
> The other long answer would be not connecting the momentary directly
> across the LD11 (or having a seperate on/off momentary as you say) and
> connecting it to HV or a PC based solution to get it to then send an
> extended X10 command to dim directly to a level.
>
> HTH!
> --
> Doogie

There doesn't seem to be nice way round this!
All the solutions mean either ripping up the floorboards or living with
guest-unfriendly behaviour.

I don't want either solution, so it looks like my future involves a
soldering iron and PIC programmer :-(

Mal