Re: C-Bus and Wire-wound transformers - HELP

["Jon Payne" <jgpayne@xxxxxxx>]

Good idea - you could break (isolate) the wires in the centre and then feed
>from
isolated/floating (I presume they are) then you'd only need to break one
wire in the centre.

jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] C-Bus and Wire-wound transformers - HELP


> One other possibility is breaking the runs into shorter lengths -
dividing
> the loads such that they stay within the economically priced / readily
> available switching transformers - although this may not work
cosmetically
> for you.
>
>             Kevin
>
>
> From: Bruno Prior [mailto:bruno@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 July 2003 20:12
>
>
> In my barn conversion, I've gone for Hi-wire lighting (i.e. the type
> with parallel tensioned wires bridged by the individual light
fittings),
> running parallel with the purlins, as we have no ceiling for hanging
> conventional lights and we wanted to make the lighting as unobtrusive
as
> possible. Some of the runs are quite long (6 metres) and pretty high
up
> (over 5 metres from the floor), so I wanted to get more than 4 x 50W
or
> 6 x 35W bulbs per run. That pushes me to a transformer over 200VA. The
> next step up seems to be 300VA, which is plenty. But unfortunately, it
> only seems to be possible to get wire-wound transformers of this size,
> not electronic.
>