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Intuitive Mercury 6-5M Controller with TDB
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Set-Up Guide may change without notice. RDM
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Daylight Block
Icon
Properties
Time Block
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Properties
Input A: Start Time
Input B: Stop Time
Latitude
Longitude
Morning Offset
Evening Offset
Daytime
Twilight
The Daylight block can be used to provide an indication of daylight and twilight
hours for a given geographical location. Note the information provided by this block
should be used as a guide only.
Latitude:
Enter the current Latitude coordinate, using decimal
degrees, of the Mercury Intuitive TDB controller.
Longitude:
Enter the current Longitude coordinate, using
decimal degrees, of the Mercury Intuitive TDB
controller.
Morning Offset:
Allows for a positive or negative offset to be added
to the morning on time for the Daytime and Twilight
outputs. A positive offset will advance the Daytime
and Twilight on time. A negative offset will delay the
Daytime and Twilight on time.
Evening Offset:
Allows for a positive or negative offset to be added
to the evening off time for the Daytime and Twilight
outputs. A positive offset will delay the Daytime and
Twilight off time. A negative offset will advance the
Daytime and Twilight off time.
Daytime:
The Daytime output will turn on at sunrise and off at
sunset based on the Latitude and Longitude
settings entered.
Twilight:
The Twilight output will turn on when Twilight begins
and off when Twilight ends based on the Latitude
and Longitude settings entered. This is typically 20
minutes before the daytime output turns on and 20
minutes after it turns off.
Any offset should be added in Seconds, use the uni
t type “secs” To achieve a
negative offset enter a negative number, for example -900 would equate to 15
minutes
A
B
Output goes Hi at the “Start Time” and goes Low
at the
“Stop Time”
