Safe AC dimmer with code



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    Has anyone found a safe and reliable dimmer code to with with an AC dimmer? I have been racking my brains and cant find a good working code. I'm using commercially made pwm/zero cross dimmers from RobotDYN(see picture). I can get a 12 volt version working but have been unsuccessful in getting this to work. Disclaimer - Im a hardware guy not a code guy.
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    My end goal would be to get it working with the rotary encoder. This is the RAW pwm/zero crossing code.

    #include "hw_timer.h"
    #include <Time.h>
    #include <TimeLib.h>
    #include <TimeAlarms.h>
    
    //Pin Setups
    const int zcPin = 12; //zero-cross detection pin D6
    const int pwmPin = 13;  //pwm pin - fires the triac D7
    
    //Dimmer Settings including fades.
    byte fade = 1;
    byte state = 1;
    byte tarBrightness = 255; //"target" brightness - going to have go convert this to a precentage for OH
    byte curBrightness = 0; //current brightness level
    byte zcState = 0; // 0 = ready; 1 = processing;
    
    char lvl[50];
    
    void setup() {
      Serial.begin(115200); //Sets the data rate in bits per second (baud) for serial data transmission.
    
      //Dimmer pins -set up the pwm and zero cross pins
      pinMode(zcPin, INPUT_PULLUP);
      pinMode(pwmPin, OUTPUT);
      attachInterrupt(zcPin, zcDetectISR, RISING);    // Attach an Interupt to Pin 2 (interupt 0) for Zero Cross Detection
      hw_timer_init(NMI_SOURCE, 0);
      hw_timer_set_func(dimTimerISR);
    
     } // END SETUP
    
    void dimTimerISR() {
      if (fade == 1) {
        if (curBrightness > tarBrightness || (state == 0 && curBrightness > 0)) {
          --curBrightness;
        }
        else if (curBrightness < tarBrightness && state == 1 && curBrightness < 255) {
          ++curBrightness;
        }
      }
      else {
        if (state == 1) {
          curBrightness = tarBrightness;
        }
        else {
          curBrightness = 0;
        }
      }
    
      if (curBrightness == 0) {
        state = 0;
        digitalWrite(pwmPin, 0);
      }
      else if (curBrightness == 255) {
        state = 1;
        digitalWrite(pwmPin, 1);
      }
      else {
        digitalWrite(pwmPin, 1);
      }
    
      zcState = 0;
    }
    
    void zcDetectISR() {
      if (zcState == 0) {
        zcState = 1;
    
        if (curBrightness < 255 && curBrightness > 0) {
          digitalWrite(pwmPin, 0);
    
          int dimDelay = 30 * (255 - curBrightness) + 400;//400
          hw_timer_arm(dimDelay);
        }
      }
    }
    

    Can anyone help?



  • @Dbagioni said in Safe AC dimmer with code:

    zcPin

    Which pin do you use? The comments say something else (twice) than the code.
    Which CPU do you use?
    For many Arduinos, you can only use pin 2 and 3.



  • The code I posted is the raw code for the zero-cross dimmer. When I had tried to merge the "dimmer with rotary encoder" sketch and the zero-cross code I had wired it up with the ZC pin as 2 and the PWM pin on 3. Encoder was wired: SW pin on 4, CLK pin on 5 and CE pin on 6. 7/8/A2 were used for status LED's.

    I was running it with an older NANO with the 328.


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