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   Re: Programmable appliance controller?   
   22 Nov 10 09:46:02   
   
   XPost: sci.electronics.equipment, misc.industry.electronics.marketplace   
      
   On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:01:01 -0600, "Jane_Galt"    
   wrote:   
      
   >John Fields   wrote :   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:58:09 -0600, "Jane_Galt"   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Does anyone make a programmable appliance controller that can handle   
   >>>fluorescent lights?   
   >>>   
   >>>I want to be able to program lights so that they always go off at 10 PM   
   >>>but match the number of hours in the local day.   
   >>   
   >> ---   
   >> I'm not sure I understand.   
   >>   
   >> Do you mean that you want the controller to always turn the lights on   
   >> at something like "sunrise plus one hour" and always turn them off at   
   >> 10 PM?   
   >>   
   >> What about daylight savings time?   
   >   
   >No, I want them to always go off at 10 PM and be on the length of the local   
   >daylight. So, for example, if we have 7.25 hours of local daylight that day,   
   >I want them to come on 7.25 hours before 10 PM and go off at 10 PM.   
      
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