Patent ID: 6369524
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
A control system, comprising:a controller having an output signal composed of a plurality of channels transmitted repeatedly in sequence, in a set period, an amplitude level of each channel being set independently of the other channels; a plurality of addressable control devices, each addressable control device being connected to the controller and corresponding to at least one of the channels, each addressable control device having a changeable electronic address and a changeable preset feature having a preset value, switch means for switching between a program mode and an operation mode a plurality of times for remotely changing the address or the preset value of each addressable control device a plurality of times, each addressable control device being in its program mode when its address or the preset value is changed, receiving means for receiving the output signal of the controller, the electronic address of each addressable control device being set by the output signal when the addressable control device is in the program mode, the amplitude level for one of the channels of the output signal being set to a non-zero level, the non-zero level channel corresponding to an addressable control device which is in its program mode, the amplitude level for the channels corresponding to the other addressable control devices being zero and preset means for setting the preset value of the preset feature when the electronic address is set.