RE: Having a terrible time trying to find 6 switches!!

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darren,

Have a look at Paul Gordon's bathroom (see
http://paulgordon.homeip.net).
He put together a 2g stainless or chrome
plate with similar pushbuttons. I don't think they were mains rated
though, so you'd need to rig up some interposing relays to go from 12V
(typically) to mains voltages. The pushbutton would have to sit in a 12V
circuit, along with the coil of the relay. The NO contact off the relay
sits in the mains circuit and basically connects the live and switched
live per a normal (non automated) light switch.

Interposing relays are not too difficult to figure out, but you need to
ensure that your LV cabling is suitably rated for mains voltages e.g.
you could use CBus Cat5, or "tri-rated switchgear" cable (search
on
http://rswww.com for "tri-rated
switchgear cable").

Hope that gives you some pointers,

Cheers,

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: darren_karp2001  Sent: 07 February 2005 18:41
>
> Hi All,
>
> All I want is 6 mains switches to be used in a wall plate to
> control my LD11's....okay....I don't want boring momentary
> swtiches but something like a chrome / satin silver
> effect...it must be fairly small (all six need to go in a 2
> gang wall plate...They can be round or square (as long as the
> mounting hole is round!)....can anyone help?
>
> Cheers
> Darren