Light Switching Question

["Tracey Gardner" <tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx>]

I've just counted up and I've got six multi way light switch locations
around my entrance hall,
Two are upstairs so that you can switch the hall and landing lights
off/on
as you go in/out of the bedrooms, that leaves the other four on the
ground
floor.

The lighting in the entrance hall consists of four, 3m long, three way
tracks/spots and I'm considering the use of X10 LD units for both
switching
and dimming. However I've got to consider both the long and short term
scenarios.
By the short term I mean that I envisage moving into the house before
installing any X10 modules and in the long term I need to consider what
would need to be done to enable the system to operate without any X10
modules, ie if I were to sell and move on.
Wiring the switches in the normal way would entail linking all the
switch
positions with three core and earth for each individual switch which
would
be a nightmare, so that virtually rules that option out.
It did occur to me to use momentary switches, which would facilitate
the
installation of LD modules later, but to have them controlling
centrally
located latching relays which would enable me to operate the lights
without
the wiring nightmare.

Has anybody got any comments or thoughts on my idea?

Tracey




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