RE: Motorised Curtain Review

[Clive Dilley <clive@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:54 PM, Graham Howe
[SMTP:graham@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> Just read the review, very interesting thanks Clive. I do have a
couple
of
> questions though. First off what exactly did you do for wiring when
you
> prewired for curtain control, was it simply an additional cat 5 run to
each
> window or something more.

Yes it was simply CAT5 to each window. When I originally wired the house I
had no idea what Auto Curtain system I would use or how I would control it.
I figured that CAT5 would be fine for low voltage control - luckily Swish
requires 24v which quite happily go down 2 pairs of the CAT5. Also the
additional pairs could be used for control of the bus - when I figure out
how to use it.

Second, several of the pictures do not display for
> me, could be a fault at my end, could be a fault on Marks site/page.

Mark put all the pictures on ... sorry

> Finally, what is the action with the light sensor, for example if the
> curtains are already open at dawn does it then close them and if I
have
the
> curtains closed during the day for watching a film for example, will
they
> then open at dusk ? If there is some intelligence built in around the
light
> sensor that avoids these problems then there might be the opportunity
to
> control the curtains via comfort direct rather than X10. I was
thinking
of
> simply removing the light sensor and connecting the corresponding
terminals
> to some Comfort relay or something similar.

The light sensor simply reverses the previous state based on ambient light
I believe (as I said in the review, I did not use them). Mark has wired his
Swish curtains directly to Comfort via a Relay. I may try something similar
when I get the time.

I was not aware that Swish plan to stop production - I guess they don't
believe there is a market and also Swish has been bought by Harrison.

>
> Regards
>
> Graham
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