Re: plugging an appliance module into a lamp module?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

First, I did not insult you. I made no reference whatsoever about your
intelligence or character. I merely denigrated your idea. Lots of very
bright people sometimes have dumb-ass ideas.

Second, you have disparaged my character.

Third, a standard lamp module will always come on at 100%. When dimmed to 0%
its output is close to 0 (as measured with a Kill A Watt meter or true RMS
voltmeter. An appliance module uses a latching relay so it will stay in the
same state whether it is under power or not but you cannot change its state
when its power source is 0.

Best case: It will not work so you'll be wasting an appliance module that
has no effect on the lamp.

Worst case: The appliance module will take umbrage at being asked to work
when its power source is between 0 & 95% (max from lamp module) and take up
smoking. The lamp module might follow suit. The house and its occupants
might follow suit.

An LM14A or one of the *Linc lamp modules will come on to a preset level.
They cost less than a lamp module + appliance module and will not be likely
to take up smoking.

"random735" <random735@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thanks Dave, this is the kind of insightful response that I come to
>this group for.
>
>Has it ever occurred to you that sometimes no response is better than
>being a jerk?  I'd think someone as brilliant as yourself would have
>better things to do with your time than spend it insulting those who
>are so clearly inferior to yourself.
>
>How about you take another 5 minutes to enlighten me about which part
>of this idea is "dumbass", if you can come down off your pedestal long
>enough to do so.
>
>Is it because it'll never work (man i'm such an idiot for not realizing
>this could never work!  But then, maybe that's why I was attempting to
>turn to those with more experience than myself)
>
>Or is it because it's an overly complicated hack when much better
>solutions exist? (you think I don't realize this?  sometimes the beauty
>is the hack itself)