Re: Din Rail Modules...

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>]

Martin,

Your understanding is fundamentally correct.

Adding DIN rail modules will not help you, unless you also rewire
(some or all of) your house into a star topology rather than a ring
topology.

In one house I worked on, we ended up putting in 192 individual mains
cable runs back to a "patch panel" under the client's stairs.
Some of
these runs went to ceiling outlets, some to wall outlets, others to
wall switches.

This is NOT a trivial task. In this particular case it was a 17th
Century cottage that had been flooded, and everything was coming out
for major structural repairs. This made it somewhat easier to
justify, since the internal walls were having to be substantially
rebuilt, and all the floors relaid anyway.

In my own house, I've stuck with plug-in modules, and the retrofit LW
style light-switches. If I upgrade, it's unlikely to be to X-10
modules, but to a higher-end system such as C-Bus or Polaron.

You may find that it's possible, however, to mount individual DIN
rails in enclosures in a loft space, rather than wiring everything
back centrally. This will give you some of the advantages of the DIN
rail approach in a "one step at a time" fashion. I'm sure I've
seen
an article about this on www.automatedhome.co.uk, but for the life of
my can't find it this evening :-(

Regards,

Mark Harrison

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Martin S Jermyn" <martin@m...>
wrote:
> I must first add that I am both new to this group and to the whole
idea
> of home automation so please expect some "newbie" questions
from me!
>
> I am hoping that you can explain Din Rail Modules to me. Basically,
I
> would like to have control of each socket etc. without having un-
sightly
> plug in modules in each socket but do not understand how the Din
Rail
> Modules allow this...
>
> All I understand from the current electrics in my house is that all
> sockets etc. are in one circuit wired back to the fuse panel. So
where
> do the Din Rail Modules come into this setup... can you please
explain?
>
> Your help will be much appreciated.
>
>
> Martin S Jermyn
> e  : martin@m...
>
>
>
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