Preset Dim and Dimming of PCS dimmers

[Thomas Arman]

As usual, Michael is right.  I should learn to listen more to him. (He can
see the code. :-)

My PCS dimmers DO respond to 0-->31 for Preset commands to go from 0 to 100%
and they also dim to zero in 10 Dim's.

The modulo 16 effect on the preset command snookered me.

Thanks for setting me straight Michael.

Tom


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: xtensionlist-bounces at shed.com [mailto:xtensionlist-bounces at shed.com]
>>On Behalf Of michael at shed.com
>>Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:47 AM
>>To: xtensionlist at shed.com
>>Subject: Re: Preset Dim and Dimming of PCS dimmers
>>
>>Thomas said :
>>>Pending my further testing noted above, I think that "preset <dimmer> to
>>>level 40" would give me ~50% light.
>>
>>Aha... there is a bug in the code... or rather a slight but regrettable
>>oversight...
>>
>>The documentation is however correct :
>>  [ to level ] -- specifies the level from 0 to 31
>>
>>The oversight is that we don't give you an error for any value greater
>>than 31,
>>like we did in the Classic version.
>>
>>What is done, is that any value greater than 16 is reduced by 16, and in
>>the inimitable old way that IBM used to define such things :
>>  "Results are unspecified"   :-)
>>
>>so :   preset "unit" to level 16 would give you approx 50%
>>
>>as would   :  preset "unit" to level (50 / 3.2)
>>
>>I will have it changed :-)
>>michael