Re: LD11 soft start shortcut anyone ?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing I do to get round this is to have a daily reset routine run by my
HA controller. This is a timed event which runs at 05:30  every day for
some
rooms, and at 11:30 AM for others (like bedrooms etc.). which among other
things, resets all my LD11 lights to 100% brightness. Allegedly, I should
be
able to do this without bringing the light on, (preset dim?) - this is a
feature listed fot the LD11's isn't it?... - but for the life of me, I
can't
make mine work without bringing the lights on... (hence I don't want this
resetting the bedrooms at 05:30!!).

The event therefore brings the light on, brightens it up to 100%, and then
turns it off again, and it does it without being noticed... - 05:30 for all
the non-bedroom areas, and 11:30AM on weekdays only means I almost never
get
to see the event hapenning.... but at least it means that I can be assured
that whenver I turn a light on, its 95% likely to be at 100%.... (which is
the behaviour that SWMBO demands...)

Paul G.



>From: "Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] LD11 soft start shortcut anyone ?
>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:10:57 -0000
>
>
>----- 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
>
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