Patent ID: 11917739
Assignee: LUTRON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  F | IPC F  H

Claim 18:
19. The linear lighting device of claim 1, wherein the control circuit of each of the emitter printed circuit boards is an emitter control circuit, and wherein the linear lighting device comprises a master lighting module and a plurality of drone lighting modules, wherein each of the plurality of drone lighting modules has one of the emitter printed circuit boards having one of the emitter control circuits and one or more emitter modules mounted thereto, the master lighting module comprising one of the emitter printed circuit boards having a master control circuit, the serial communication circuit, one of the emitter control circuits, and one or more emitter modules mounted thereto, the master control circuit configured to control a plurality of emitter control circuits of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards, the master control circuit configured to:
transmit a first control message to a first emitter control circuit of the plurality of emitter control circuits;
measure, after sending the first control message, a first voltage on a communication line;
transmit a second control message to a second emitter control circuit of the plurality of emitter control circuits;
measure, after sending the second control message, a second voltage on the communication line; and
determine an order of the drone lighting modules that are communicatively coupled to the master lighting module based on the first voltage and the second voltage.