Professional Dimmer

Discussion in 'C-Bus Toolkit and C-Gate Software' started by ariesnaceno, Oct 18, 2012.

  1. ariesnaceno

    ariesnaceno

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    Hi good day,

    we installed 10 proffecional dimmer to one of our project last 5 months,
    and then we encounter a problem to one of the dimmer
    the 2 channels were stock to 60% dim.. and its not able to control via PC using PICED.. they manually turn it off..

    What do you think the problem??

    Thanks in Advance Guys..

    GodBless

    Best Regards, Aries
     
    ariesnaceno, Oct 18, 2012
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    Darren Senior Member

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    Are you saying that it is possible to turn off these groups manually (using a wall switch) but not from PICED?
     
    Darren, Oct 18, 2012
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    ariesnaceno

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    Hi Darren..

    there is no wall switch used to this project..

    were using a PC to Control the System

    This project is a Arena.. theres a PC in the Control room to control all the lights...

    We inspect the dimmers last night, and we find out that the problem is the Coil inside the dimmer we replace the coil to the channel that is not functioning
    and then it work again..

    heres the picture of the coil

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    what is the reason why this happen??
    its a factory defect?

    thank in advance..

    godbless
     
    ariesnaceno, Oct 19, 2012
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    NickD Moderator

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    Errr.. this is fairly serious..

    1) what was wrong with the coil?

    2) what did you replace it with?

    The "coil" is a crucial part of the dimmer. If you replace it with something different then at best the dimmer might not be EMC compliant, but at worst it could be a safety risk.

    If you just need to get the lights on, then you can use the bypass switch on the card. I would suggest you do this rather than modify the coil.

    Nick
     
    NickD, Oct 19, 2012
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    ariesnaceno

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    Hi nick..

    we get the coil to the spare dimmer..

    this incident was the second time..

    the original programmer encounter this problem also..

    he replace the coil to the spare dimmer..
     
    ariesnaceno, Oct 22, 2012
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