A post from Dan of LOR made a a few weeks ago:
"We have the new Gen2 controllers being released next year. They have been going through months of testing, and are currently undergoing UL 508 certification. Gen2 will be a major step forward in firmware as well as many new features in the hardware such as On Card Ghost Loads (which will help with LEDs), they can also optionally have real snubbers which will help in 240v countries where transformers are plugged into the controller. Other new features as well.
The new Gen2 controller code, is being written so that most of the new firmware based features can be used in our existing controllers as well. Most existing controllers will have a free firmware upgrade that will provide multiple dimming curves. which will help normalize incandescent and LED fades. The fade resolution is being changed from 256 steps to 1024 steps across the ZC. This is important because a device like a LED has such a limited dimming range, that fade step size (with only 256 steps) can be an issue. In addition there are a number of other new features and new lighting effects generated. "
Wow!
Man we should add these to the Express!
Oh wait, We did! a few years ago. Imagine 1024 step dimming to make LEDS ("Normalize") lights
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Loginand snubbers on the controllers theres a new idea!
Just wish the DIY'ers could keep up with the commerical guys and all their money.
RJ