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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: birdzeye on March 01, 2008, 05:46:14 PM

Title: mt12a
Post by: birdzeye on March 01, 2008, 05:46:14 PM

Can lights be dimmed/brightened with it?

Title: Re: mt12a
Post by: Brian H on March 01, 2008, 06:45:04 PM

I don't see any Bright or Dim Buttons on mine.

Title: Re: mt12a
Post by: birdzeye on March 01, 2008, 08:23:40 PM

Quote from: Brian H on March 01, 2008, 06:45:04 PM

I don't see any Bright or Dim Buttons on mine.

Me neither, but I thought it said in the advertising that it did. Maybe it was the old minitimer?

Title: Re: mt12a
Post by: Brian H on March 02, 2008, 07:55:38 AM

I believe the older one did dim and brighten.
I got an early MT12A and it has the older units button labels in the box? The ones with little logos on them like a table lamp etc.

Title: Re: mt12a
Post by: birdzeye on March 02, 2008, 09:25:53 AM

Mine is the new minitimer2 and it has stickers too, which I'm glad you brought up because I've been wondering where exactly these stickers are supposed to go---right on the unit or what?

Title: Re: mt12a
Post by: Dan Lawrence on March 02, 2008, 10:25:13 AM

Apparently X10 has struck again.  The Minitimer2 has no buttons, but the labels for the buttons are still included.  OOPS!!! 

Title: Re: mt12a
Post by: birdzeye on March 03, 2008, 10:40:51 AM

Will 2 mt12a's + 2 tm751's on 2 different housecodes work OK and without interference?

Title: Re: mt12a
Post by: dave w on March 03, 2008, 12:00:07 PM

Quote from: birdzeye on March 03, 2008, 10:40:51 AM

Will 2 mt12a's + 2 tm751's on 2 different housecodes work OK and without interference?

In most cases, yes. However both units are "impolite",  meaning they will transmit PLC codes without checking for other X10 activity on the lines.

Probably shouldn't program the two mini timers to turn on seperate devices at the exact same time.