On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Andre Abelian wrote:

> Do you want to control each lamp separately or all at once ?

All at once.  There's low-voltage 2-conductor stranded wire run around the
landscaping, and the lights tap into this for their power, all in parallel
along the run.

> Turning on and off with triac is easy but if you want to dim it
> Then you need to detect zero crossing on each phase and call
> Delay up to 7.3ms

Dimming isn't a reall *requirement*, but of course the more I think about
it the more reasons I can think of to include it!  8-)

Dale

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