Re: X10 Retrofit ?

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marcus

I know the cbus wireless stuff isnt going to be cheap..but its perfect for
your application.....You just remove the light switch and connect up the
switch wires to the cbus switch no neutral required.can be a single or dual
dimmer. If possible wire the upper part  of the house could be  a hardwired
cbus system and when funds are available get the wireless gateway so both
networks can talk to each other....and of course the wireless stuff is
easily removed.....and the switches look fantastic..........

my two bobs worth ;-))

Frank



----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Warrington" <marcusw@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:37 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] X10 Retrofit ?


>
> I'm just starting to retrofit our house with X10 (after 1.5 years of
procrastinating!)
> Since the house was rewired 3 years ago in the conventional ring
circuit
style, I'm thinking
> of placing a separate consumer box on each floor of the house to run
X10
DIN modules for all
> the lights on each floor (4 floors in total
..cellar/ground/upper/Attics).
Since lights
> are already fed on a ring circuit I'm thinking that I can simply run a
2
core cable from the
> ceiling rose (Live/Neutral)of one light on each floor back to the
consumer
unit to power the
> X10 DIN modules in each consumer box. Then run a single 2 core
(switch)
cable from each DIN
> module to each ceiling rose and "highjack" the switched
return wire and
redirect it to the DIN
> module. i.e. the current switched (live) return wire would be joined
to
the new wire going to
> X10 switch input terminal, and the return wire from the X10 switched
output would be joined to
> the light where the current switched live is connected. Doing it this
way
would mean a fairly
> easy conversion i.e. feed one 2 core wire from each ceiling rose to
consumer unit and replace
> light switches. It also means I could revert back to a normal non X10
switch very easily if I
> ever sell the house (just move rewire ceiling rose and replace wall
switch).
>
> Current wiring
>
> ----*--------------- N (ring)...
> ---------*--------- L (ring)...
>
>          `------------------------[ Switch ]----.
>
>           .-------------------------------------'
>      \    /
>       \  /
>        \/
>        ##
>       (::) <-bulb
>        `'
>
>
> Proposed X10 retrofit
>
>      .-----------------------------------------------------.
>          .----------------------------------------------.
>
> ----*-------------- N (ring)...
> ---------*--------- L (ring)...
>                                   Momentary
>          `------------------------[ Switch  ]---.         <-- only
from
one light
>                                                              per ring
>           .---.   .-----------------------------'
>      \    /
>       \  /        ` -----------------------------.
>        \/      `------------------------------.
>        ##               .-------. .-------. .-------.
>       (::) <-bulb        L^  2   L^  2   L^  2
>        `'
>                          LD11    LD11    LD11
>
>                          L   N   L   N   L   N
>                         `-------' `-------' `-------'
>                               `-------^--------^-------'
>                           `---------^--------^---------'
>
>
> Is this OK? Is there any problem with effectively feeding the power
for
the consumer unit via
> a spur from the lighting circuit ?
>
>
> Marcus
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