Re: LON Lighting control

["Neil Fuller" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shane

It's interesting that LON has been so successful in the
industrial/commercial environment when it was originally designed as a
domestic network solution.

However, that was many years ago and as you say, the development kits are
hugely expensive :-(

Talking of Clipsal, someone recently told me that Honeywell produce a lot
of
C-Bus kit - That is HVAC equipment using the C-Bus protocol - Have you
heard
anything of that??

Regards

Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Harrison" <shane.harrison@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:37 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] LON Lighting control


> Hi Neil,
>
> LON has of course been successful in the industrial environment but
has
> struggled to get a hold in the domestic one - at least here in NZ and
> Australia.  Clipsal has been much more successful. The nice thing
about
> LON of course was in theory it is multisourced rather single sourced
as
> is Clipsal.  Problem is that it is quite expensive.
>
> As for connecting other kit - I know that a do it yourself solution is
> out of the question.  IIRC the development kit required to do it was
> around 10-20K USD !!!  LON has a concept of a 'neuron' - maybe someone
> has a product that is a generic gateway ie. LON to serial, I wouldn't
be
> surprised.
>
> Cheers
> Shane
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil Fuller [mailto:neil@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, 15 February 2004 9:15 a.m.
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] LON Lighting control
> >
> >
> > Thanks Frank
> >
> > That's quite interesting, my company has a tie up with
> > Schneider here in the UK so I'll explore what they have to offer.
> >
> > More importantly, my main concern is how to integrate LON
> > based products with other kit.
> >
> > I have Comfort installed for security and Trend for HVAC. I
> > can integrate Trend and LON using Plexus but as for
> > integrating with other kit such as SliMP3 etc, I think I'll
> > get a bit lost!
> >
> > Does anyone else on the list use LON?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] LON Lighting control
> >
> >
> > > Hi Neil
> > >             Have a look here....its a Newzealand company
> > now owned by
> > > Scheinder who use lon i believe..........
> > >
> > http://www.schneider-electric.com.au/Products/WiringAccessories/ebos.h
> > > tm
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Frank
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Neil Fuller" <neil@xxxxxxx>
> > > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:42 AM
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] LON Lighting control
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've come across a very cheap source of Phillips
lighting
> > > > controllers
> > > which are LONmark compatible.
> > > >
> > > > Despite having been in the BMS industry for 15 years,
I've never
> > > > played
> > > with LON.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone any views on using LON in the domestic
environment?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Neil
> > > >
> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > > >
> > > >
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