Re: Making an X-10 lamp module immune to dimming

[ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani)]

In article <h5adnbRiRefVtdrVnZ2dnUVZ_rLinZ2d@xxxxxxx>, ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx (Robert Green) writes:
| "BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:4847176b$0$4262$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > The instructions for the mod you seek can be found here:
| > http://www.idobartana.com/hakb/
| > Scroll down on the left to "Lamp Modules" and the sub heading "Making a
| > Silent Appliance Module" and start warming up your soldering iron!
| >
| > Ido's site is THE repository for X10 mods!
|
| Thanks!  I saw that and it's close but no ceegar.  One of the reasons to do
| this is so that lamps CAN respond to all lights on and off.

The described modification does not affect the module's response to all
lights on.  If you actually have lamp modules that respond to all lights
off (none of mine do) it won't affect that either.

| I suppose in
| the spirit of "Thomas Edison" whose strategy was often "try anything you can
| think of" I'll try cutting the control lines from the PIC to the triac to
| see what happens.

Nothing useful will happen...

| It just seemed to me that
| the bright and dim control circuit paths might be separate enough from the
| on off circuitry that one could be neutered without affecting the other.

There is but one path.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@danlan.*com