DIN [was RE: x10 stair lighting and x10 PIR]

["Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>]

To be precise, DIN stands for Deutsches Institut fur Normung which roughly
translates to German Institute for Standardization or German Standards
Institute. The expansion offered by Mark Harrison ("German Industry
Standards") is acceptable with the meaning remaining largely accurate
to the
original. Such an expansion seems to derive from a drive to define DIN as
an
accepted European standard (which it is promoted as) and reduce it's German
origins given the course of European history and general European feeling
towards Germany.

The comparison to BS standards and it's purpose in this context is of
course
accurate.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 October 2002 22:19
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] x10 stair lighting and x10 PIR
>
>
> DIN standard for Deutsche Industry Norm, the German standards body.
>
> In this particular case, the DIN standard (like a BS standard) is
> for twin-power-rails within a consumer unit. (The thing that does
> the job that fuse boxes used to.)
>
> A DIN module fits into the consumer unit, at a central location,
> and you wire back to it.
>
> If you look on
> http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article.php3?story_id=871&slashSess
> =344909d8ed2b5e56726e8cda76d41bb9 you'll see what we mean.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 1 October 2002 22:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] x10 stair lighting and x10 PIR
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:14:05 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >If you can re-wire, then you should consider din rail modules,
> with momentary switches wired back to them.
>
> I have seen DIN modules mentioned before. What does DIN mean? What do
> they do? Thanks.
>
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