Making an X-10 lamp module immune to dimming

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone know of a mod to make an X-10 lamp module immune to dimming?  If not,
does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish it?  I have lots of
extra modules to experiment on, and it would seem that there's a control
line that tells the triac how much to "chop" that could be modded to always
run full tilt.  That way, a brighten or dim command wouldn't affect them.

I found the schematic at Dr. C's site:

http://www.edcheung.com/automa/lm465.gif

He also did some work attempting to make the switch smarter

http://www.edcheung.com/automa/iwsp.htm

by dropping in his own PIC, but was overtaken by events and commercial units
becoming available that did what he wanted.

It looks like the triac, BTA10-400C, gets controlled by pins 6 and 8 of the
78561 microcontroller.  The trick is to make it deaf to only bright and dim,
not on and off.


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Bobby G.