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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2011
Russikesh Kumar, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Russikesh Kumar, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Crestron Electronics Inc., Rockleigh, NJ (US);
Abstract
A dimmer adaptable to either two (H, DH) or three (H, N, DH) active wires includes a first full-wave rectifier (D, D, D, D) across an AC power hot (H) terminal and a dimmer hot (DH) terminal and a second full-wave rectifier (D, D, D, D) across the AC power hot (H) terminal and an AC power neutral (N) terminal. The dimmer operates in a two-wire configuration by drawing power through a load when a control circuit is not conducting or in a three-wire configuration, when the AC power neutral (N) terminal is connected, by drawing power from AC power hot (H) and AC power neutral (N) terminals. The dimmer operates according to a first set of preset dim levels when current is flowing through the first rectifier and according to a second set of preset dim levels when current is flowing through the second rectifier.