Tridonic Gmbh Co. Kg

Tridonicatco Gmbh & Co Kg

Reinhard Boeckle

Andre Mitterbacher

Reinhold Juen

Roger Kistler

Carsten Strietzel

Markus Kuenzli

Patrick Zueger

Reto Sprenger

The invention relates to a method for allocating an operating address to an operating device for luminous means, in which the operating address is transmitted to the operating device in digitally coded form via an interface which is configured to connect a light sensor. The operating address is allocated by a user using a handheld device to transmit optical digital signals to a light sensor or infrared sensor which is connected to the interface.

Allocation of an operating address to a bus-compatible operating device for luminous means

In examples of the embodiment, a surge-proof interface circuit () comprises a rectifier circuit () which is configured to produce a rectified rectifier output voltage at the rectifier output terminals (), in accordance with a rectifier input voltage at the rectifier input terminals (), and a Darlington circuit () which comprises at least two transistors (Q, Q). Said Darlington circuit () comprises a current path () which can be controlled on the output side in accordance with a control signal () and said current path () which can be controlled on the output side is coupled between the rectifier output connections ().

Surge-proof interface circuit

The transmission branch of an interface circuit has a transformer. On the input side there are applied to the transformer, for example from a controller, high-frequency impulses. The output side of the transformer controls a switch, such as for example a power transistor, which modulates the desired digital signals onto a connected bus line.

Interface circuit for transmission of digital signals

A method for the monitoring of transmissions in a transmission branch of a bidirectional interface, which besides the transmission branch has a reception branch standing in connection with the transmission branch, has the steps a) sending out of information by means of the transmission branch, and b) evaluation of defined characteristics of the sent information via the reception branch of the same interface, whereby preferably depending on the evaluation of the sent information a setting of parameters of the transmission branch is effected, so that future information is sent out with use of these parameters.

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Maeder, Austria

Reinhard Boeckle