Re: Lighting

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

Hi Amar

If you have wired each light ( or group) back to your consumer unit
location
you can decide later which way to go ..............

Not sure what sort of switching requirements for x10 stuff though.........
eg cat5 ot twin active..............low voltage or 240v????


With 3 groups of  lights (c_bus) only 1 cat5 required you can daisy chain
additional switches of existing single cat5  if needed..........The
switches
come in 1 2 or 4 gang ......


Today i installed some C_Bus stuff  here at home and its fantastic and easy
to program..........Not sure about UK prices but an 8 channel dimmer (1A
each) cost me approx $750.00 (+ vat) were 8 ld11,s would have cost me
$880.00..

Hopefully Rob Mouser or Kevin Hawkins can give you more details...........

HTH

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: <umar@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Lighting


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> I hope to be wiring up the new house in next few days.
>
> I have told the sparky to wire up each group of lights and related
switch
back to the mains - that means we will end up with around 16 lighting
circuits upstairs (dependent on final wiring) and 4 mains circuits
upstairs,
and a little more downstairs.
>
> I am not decided about X10 lighting or Clipsal C Bus (is that right)
but I
understand that this method of wiring will mean I dont have to decied until
after first fix stage - is that correct?
>
> The questions are
>
> - where can I get prices from for Clipsal system
> - if I choose x10 it will come from one of our group members - laser
or
LA - they dont know that yet so dont tell them :-)
> - what are other lighting alternatives?
> - what consumer units will I need?
> - can anyone recommend place for cheap twin & earth cable - I
think I
might need a lot ....
>
> Also for clipsal lighting, if you have 3 groups of lights in one room,
do
you run 1 cat5 cable next to the switch or 3 runs?
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