Re: Comfort Questions

["Frank Mc Alinden" <armagh@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob           
Did you know Clipsal have brought out a new range of
switches . Have a look .
www.clipsalneo.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>
To: "Ukha (E-mail)" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:23 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Comfort Questions


> Hi All
>
> Well I'm getting there! The barn is nearly complete (Well at least
the
> ground floor anyway!).
>
> All my lighting is in (8 independently wired zones for Lounge and
> Dinning room)
> CAT5 to everywhere I can think off (4 points per socket, 2 sockets
per
> room. And 2 points to where you would normally have light
switches.)
> CAT5 to ceiling corners of room for PIR's and/or IR receivers.
> Audio cable to ceiling points in each room, plus hard wired points
in
> the living room for full surround sound.
>
> After trawling this group, countless web sites and much more I
finally
> decided on the C-bus system and Comfort for main control, its all
on
> order (Although Comfort seem to have quite a few back order issues
and
> may be a few weeks before the whole order arrives.) so the real fun
of
> wiring node zero and programming is soon to start.
>
> As far as whole house audio is concerned I've plumped for the
> Speakercraft Easy6 Pre-amp (www.speakercraft.com) with a clutch of
Arcam
> Power Amps to drive the 6 stereo zones. The 6 sources will be, Tuners
x
> 2, CD x 1, MD x 1 and 2 x Audiotrons (Thanks Tony!). The
Speakercraft
> Easy6 has a built in zoned IR distribution system (I.e. 6 IR
inputs
> (From each zone) and 6 outputs (To source equipment), its fully
routable
> so different sources can play in each zone or party mode etc.
>
> My questions are:
>
> I don't want to have to have 2 lots of IR receivers if I can help it
(1
> set for the comfort control and 1 set for the Easy6) is their any
way
> Comfort could be configured to forward IR from the zones to the Easy
6?
> Two reasons why; cost and I want my automation to be VERY
discrete.
>
> Also, I've been struggling with what to use for general control of
> lighting (and possibly some comfort automation controls) in each room.
I
> really don't like the Comfort keypads I think they're a bit ugly (I
will
> have just 1 in the hall though.)
> I like the wall plates supplied with such as the QED Systemline and
also
> the Polaron units, nice, modern with small illuminated buttons. Is
there
> anywhere I can get custom versions of this type of thing? Even if
they
> were RS232 I could link them to a comfort UCM.
> At the moment I may just plump for a single gang clipsal plate with 4
or
> 5 momentary switches to give me some basic scene setting, surely
though
> there must something that can give me greater functionality?
>
> Look forward to your replies.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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