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Re: Comfort Prices ?!?


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Comfort Prices ?!?
  • From: "Patrick Lidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:14:54 -0000
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Dean Smith" <ukha@e...> wrote:
> Been meaning to get round to putting a Comfort Current Sensor=20
Module on my Shower Pump (for the Extractor) for a while now. Just=20
went to the Comfort web-site and the price for the Current Sensor is=20
=A347! - I'm positive it used to be =A318.
>=20
> Now I'm all for paying a fair price for software/hardware which has=20
a large amount of R&D etc but a current sensor ?
>=20
> IMHO - Shooting themselves in the foot, if these were a tenner each=20
I'd buy a few more and doubtless end up buying extra expansion=20
boards - but not @ =A347+Vat each.
>=20
> Anyone got a simple circuit for a Current Detector ?
>=20

Do you really need a current detector?

A relay with a mains voltage coil connected in parallel with the=20
(switched) pump supply should do the trick, I'd have thought, if you=20
can arrange it such that it complies with the wiring regs.

Patrick



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