diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 3cd0c12..5e0fe3b 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ const sACNServer = new Sender({
 
 async function main() {
   await sACNServer.send({
-    payload: { // required. object with the percentages for each DMX channel
+    payload: {
+      // Required. An object with the percentages (0-100) for each DMX channel.
+      // You can use 0-255 instead of 0-100 by setting `useRawDmxValues: true`
+      // per packet, or in the `defaultPacketOptions`.
       1: 100,
       2: 50,
       3: 0,
@@ -113,7 +116,6 @@ async function main() {
 }
 
 main(); // wrapped in a main() function so that we can `await` the promise
-
 ```
 
 ### Table 3 - Options for Sender
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@ main(); // wrapped in a main() function so that we can `await` the promise
 | `universe`             | `number`  | Required. The universes to listen to. Must be within 1-63999                                               | `[]`    |
 | `port`                 | `number`  | Optional. The multicast port to use. All professional consoles broadcast to the default port.              | `5568`  |
 | `reuseAddr`            | `boolean` | Optional. Allow multiple programs on your computer to send to the same sACN universe.                      |
-| `defaultPacketOptions` | `object`  | Optional. You can specify options like `sourceName`, `cid`, and `priority` here instead of on every packet |
+| `defaultPacketOptions` | `object`  | Optional. You can specify options like `sourceName`, `cid`, `priority` and `useRawDmxValues` here instead of on every packet |
 | `iface`                | `string`  | Optional. Specifies the IPv4 address of the network interface/card to use.                                 | OS default interface (=active internet connection)
 | `useUnicastDestination`| `string`  | Optional. Setting this attribute to an IPv4 address will cause data to be sent directly to that device, instead of broadcasting to the whole LAN. |
 
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@ The Architecture for Control Networks (ACN) and derived protocols are created by
 - RDMNet is defined in [ANSI E1.33](./docs/E1.33-2019.pdf)
 
 ---
+
 <small id="footnote1">
 
 1&shy;. Unicast is also supported by default, but this is not how sACN normally works. See [_Table 3_](#table-3---options-for-sender) for how to send data directly to a unicast address. [↩](#footnote-source1)
diff --git a/src/packet.ts b/src/packet.ts
index b95d745..93db168 100644
--- a/src/packet.ts
+++ b/src/packet.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ export interface Options {
   sourceName?: Packet['sourceName'];
   priority?: Packet['priority'];
   cid?: Packet['cid'];
+  /**
+   * Whether to use 0-100 or 0-255 scale when creating the packet
+   * - `false` (default): 0-100
+   * - `true`: 0-255
+   */
+  useRawDmxValues?: Packet['useRawDmxValues'];
 }
 
 /**
@@ -58,6 +64,8 @@ export class Packet {
 
   /* eslint-enable lines-between-class-members */
 
+  private readonly useRawDmxValues: boolean = false;
+
   public constructor(
     input: Buffer | Options,
     public readonly sourceAddress?: string,
@@ -121,6 +129,10 @@ export class Packet {
       this.propertyValueCount = 0x0201; // "Indicates 1+ the number of slots in packet"
       // We set the highest possible value (1+512) so that channels with zero values are
       // treated as deliberately 0 (cf. undefined)
+
+      if (options.useRawDmxValues) {
+        this.useRawDmxValues = true;
+      }
     }
   }
 
@@ -168,7 +180,11 @@ export class Packet {
 
     for (const ch in this.payload) {
       if (+ch >= 1 && +ch <= 512) {
-        n[125 + +ch] = inRange(this.payload[ch]! * 2.55);
+        if (this.useRawDmxValues) {
+          n[125 + +ch] = inRange(this.payload[ch]!);
+        } else {
+          n[125 + +ch] = inRange(this.payload[ch]! * 2.55);
+        }
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/sender.ts b/src/sender.ts
index 5136344..d9a652f 100644
--- a/src/sender.ts
+++ b/src/sender.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ export interface SenderProps {
   minRefreshRate?: number;
 
   /** some options can be sepecified when you instantiate the sender, instead of sepecifying them on every packet */
-  defaultPacketOptions?: Pick<Options, 'cid' | 'sourceName' | 'priority'>;
+  defaultPacketOptions?: Pick<
+    Options,
+    'cid' | 'sourceName' | 'priority' | 'useRawDmxValues'
+  >;
 
   // IPv4 address of the network interface
   iface?: string;
diff --git a/test/packet.test.ts b/test/packet.test.ts
index 750cefa..5008342 100644
--- a/test/packet.test.ts
+++ b/test/packet.test.ts
@@ -59,4 +59,29 @@ describe('Simple Packet', () => {
     // double wrapped so that it converts to buffer and back
     assert.deepStrictEqual(new Packet(packet.buffer).payload, {});
   });
+
+  it('correctly sets channel values from the [0-100] range', () => {
+    const packet = new Packet({
+      universe: 1,
+      payload: { 1: 91.76, 2: 100, 4: 100 },
+      sequence: 172,
+    });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(
+      packet.buffer.slice(126, 130), // first 4 channel values
+      Buffer.from([0xea, 0xff, 0, 0xff]),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('correctly sets channel values from the [0-255] range', () => {
+    const packet = new Packet({
+      universe: 1,
+      payload: { 1: 234, 2: 255, 4: 255 },
+      sequence: 172,
+      useRawDmxValues: true,
+    });
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(
+      packet.buffer.slice(126, 130), // first 4 channel values
+      Buffer.from([0xea, 0xff, 0, 0xff]),
+    );
+  });
 });