Re: Converting the Bathroom light to X10 control

["Alancc" <alan.cc@xxxxxxx>]

Any info on the Ecolume PIR

Thanks 

Alancc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kenneth Watt <kwatt@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:57 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Converting the Bathroom light to X10 control


> > Basically the question is, How do I do it? Is this what
LD11's/AD10's
> are
> > used for?
> 
> Having two bathrooms I have used two different methods but both
amount
> to the same thing and it works for me.
> 
> Main bathroom downstairs:
> 
> PIR from Ecolume which has all the safeties removed, this works
> brilliantly as an occupancy detector, easily the best PIR for the
> purpose I've tried to date.
> 
> LD11 on the 20 10W, yes *20*, LV halogens from two transformers,
Ring
> made electronic transformers.
> 
> A Leviton switch in the hall which simply sends an X10 command to
the
> LD11 so, effectively, there is no manual control as such but it's
not
> needed.
> 
> Upstairs En-Suite:
> 
> No local switching at all, lights and fan are purely controlled by
> PIR/X10!
> 
> One light fitting with 3x50W mains halogens on an LD11
> 
> Ceiling extraction fan on an AD10
> 
> Ecolume PIR
> 
> The fan lights come on with motion in the en-suite and then run on
a
> timer till they extinguish. With the PIR being so sensitive to
motion
> this works very well indeed and I have had no problems, during the
night
> the fan is disabled to minimise disruption through the night of a
noisy
> fan.
> 
> Both these setups have now been in use now for over a year without
any
> problems at all, in fact after the initial tinkering with the timers
etc
> I have not touched them, or the programming, in over a year.
> 
> HTH
> 
> K.





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