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fabianoriccardi / dimmable-light

Arduino library to manage dimmers compatible with AVR, ESP8266, ESP32, SAMD, and RP2040 platforms.
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Add "Count Mode" similiar to Circuitar #29

Open yokusan opened 2 years ago

yokusan commented 2 years ago

Dear Fabiano,

would it be possible to integrate a "Count Mode" similar as in the Circuitar Dimmer library? This is the mode that uses complete half-waves to dim. That would be very helpful.

Regards from Germany,

Johannes

fabianoriccardi commented 2 years ago

Hi Johannes, Of course, it is possible, but it requires a bit of rework. May you tell me in which scenario/circuit you would use it? Actually, I started the library to control lamps, so I suppose you would control other kind of loads that requires smoother signal.

yokusan commented 2 years ago

I want to control a resistive load (Thermoblock of an espresso machine) using an AC Dimmer module (RobotDyn) in combination with an ESP32 controller and the PID library. I would like to avoid cutting in the phase to minimize inductive heat generation and to minimize electric noise.

nsummy commented 2 years ago

@yokusan Check out these 2 repos, it might have what you are looking for:

https://github.com/biletnikov/bresenham-triac-driver https://github.com/GyverLibs/GyverDimmer/blob/main/README_EN.md