Re: living room lighting plan

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

I couldn't in all honesty, recommend anything using the X10 RF stuff if you
have WAF to consider. They are >notoriously< unreliable, - you *WILL*
experience switch failures, transmisssion failures, and lock-ups at some
point, such that when you walk into the room an operate the SS13, nothing
will happen. This usually makes one decidedlu UNpopular with SWMBO!

You may get better results with some of the non X10 RF stuff, like the
Visonic perhaps?

All IMHO of course.

Paul G.



>From: "kinchyuk" <kinchyuk@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] living room lighting plan
>Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:25:42 -0000
>
>
>Having put some LW10's in the rooms with more simple lighting, I
>figured it's time to make a start on the living room.
>
>I've got four wall uplighters, one table lamp, and at present one
>main light, with just a single bulb hanging out of it. The uplighters
>are daisy-chained on one circuit, and the main light is on another -
>both controlled from a double lightswitch on the wall near the door.
>The table lamp is just plugged into a wall socket.
>
>The plan I've got so far, after much pondering, is this. Get a load
>of SL575 screw-in lamp modules (all the uplighters are ES anyway,
>which makes life easy), plus a LM12 for the table light.
>
>For control, bypass the existing switch (terminal blocks below a
>blanking plate maybe?) and put a SS13 3-way RF stick-on swich on the
>wall.
>
>Does this all sound like a good plan? Are SL575's dimmable - and can
>they dim from start or do they do the 100% then dim trick like the
>LW10's?
>
>The backboxes around the house are pretty shallow - the LW10's were a
>bit of a squeeze, so there wouldn't be much room behind the existing
>switch for anything fancy. However, there is some space in the
>uplighters spare if I need to put a module of sorts in there. Also,
>there's no neutral connection at the current wallswitch as far as I
>know.
>
>Any suggestions? I'd like to get this right first time :-)
>
>Alex
>




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