Re: CBUS then?....

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Gordon wrote:

>Well you can forget that!! - I'm only going to go for CBUS if it isn't
>stupdly expensive... I recall seing discussions on the list a while ago
>which reckoned it to be approximately double the price of X10,.... well
that
>I can live with... I can also live with installing bit by bit... I
don't
>mind ending up with a system that costs me 2 grand, so long as I don't
have
>to stump it all up in one go... - that's too big a dent in my plasma
>fund....
>
>
Yup.... its ballpark 100 for a Neo (no matter wether its 2, 4 or 8 gang)
and ISTR ballpark 100 for a dimmer (either 4 or 8 channel)

>£100-odd quid for a switch doesn't seem *too* bad (even SWMBO said the
>same!), - and those Neo's do look luvverly.....
>
>
They certainly do :)

>Also, in earlier replies about the ratings of the modules, are you
using the
>terms circuit and channel interchangeably? - IE were the dimmer packs
rated
>at 1A per channel? - in which case that would be OK, - none of the
>individual loads I want to run are higher than that... - admittedly, my
>ceiling lights are right on the edge! -  6 x 40W = 240W = 1A... I don't
plan
>to double up any light fittings onto a single channel, rather I'd have
>everything on it's own channel so it can be fully independently
>controlled... I presume CBUS flexibility makes it trivial to make sure
that
>multiple lights can be controlled as if they were one, - IE making them
>operate simultaneously with identical ramp speeds etc....
>
>
/me whips out the catalogue

4 channel dimmers 2A per channel
8 channel dimmers 1A per channel

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