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RE: Ceiling Lights & Local Control


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  • Subject: RE: Ceiling Lights & Local Control
  • From: "Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:06:56 -0000
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Doogie, should work fine I did it in my last house successfully.

HTH

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doogie Brodie [mailto:doogiebrodie@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 February 2002 11:22
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Ceiling Lights & Local Control
>
> > As for wiring, well if you are going to use an LD11 you need
> > momentary contact at the switch anyway so just use the
> > existing switch wire to the fitting and change the
> > configuration accordingly.
> >
> > Still no status response, but hey, that's an X10 problem not
> > an installation one!
> >
> > This is something I was going to look at in the one room I
> > just cannot get access to the space above the ceiling rose
> > in, but I was thinking on the new tiny A10 lamp module to
> > solve the problem, but at a cost almost double the cost of an
> > LD11 IIRC.
> >
> > Now how's that for a sticky plaster solution :-)
>
> Ooooooooooh Will this really work.....?
>
> I've shyed away from the LD stuff in the past due to living in a 1
> bedroom flat with ridiculously high ceilings and red stone walls,
which
> means I have no access from above, and the walls crumble to buggery
when
> you try to knock holes in them, so chasing new wires and stuff just
> wasn't going to happen, hence putting up with LW units....... But, if
> this will work without any new wires, then I can chuck one of these
into
> the ceiling in the bedroom, and change the switch for a momentary
> one...... That would be cool :)
>
> (Can you tell I know squat about electrical wiring? :) )
>
> Doogie
>
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