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Re: Lighting



I am thinking about lighting control be www.upnp.org Universal Plug and
Play.

With UPNP you can latter select the best control system.

Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: <umar@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Lighting


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> I hope to be wiring up the new house in next few days.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> The questions are
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> - 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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