Re: LD11 soft start shortcut anyone ?

["egelbeertje" <r_d_k@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doogie's short answer (NO) got me thinking hardwarewise.

I will see if I can fish down another wire through the existing
tubing, then connect a relay with a normally closed circuit to
connect the mains Live to the lamp, if I then power the relay with
the on/off switch it will cut the mains from the LD11 output and the
normally open contact will have the mains switch on the light (so to
avoid mains destroying the triac output of the LD11)
A tough bit of work to do there but at least swmbo proof (and
hardwired solutions fail less + in the true spirit of HA gives you
the choice of making things work the way you want :-)

sure hope this works....

Rob


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mal Lansell" <mlansell@f...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doogie Brodie" <ukhad@d...>
> 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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