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In article <2465@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@lapis.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>DAK sells ...
>
>Well, 
>1.) you have to buy a $10.00 controller box for each device you want to
>control. (A standard X-10 controller box such as Radio Shack and Whole
>Earth Access carry.)
>2.) you can't control the dimmers' dim rate. Slow fades are not possible
>with this system. You can't even program them, because the firmware in
>their dimmer controller brings the dimmer through 100% to recalibrate it
>on each transition.
>3.) Each dimmer only has 16 values of dimness. For theatre work you
>probably need more. 

Yeah, X-10 is *out* for theatre lighting control.  Call for a dim-down
and each light to be dimmed sweeps up to full and then down to your
setting.  Blackouts and instant-on work, but not on other than a bump.
All units must be on the same transformer, too, or the signals are lost.
As far as I know, the X-10 units which can handle *power* don't dim.

There are systems for the PC and for the Apple ][ which were designed
especially for theatre lighting, tho'.  The lighting trade-rags carry
ads and articles.
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