RE: CBus wiring and consumer unit

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

Martin,

What about putting all of the CBus kit next to the consumer unit in the
utility room. Do you need anything more than a network connection
between N0 and CBus ?
IIRC you can daisy chain the light switches so you could run all the cat
5 back to your N0, common up the CBus switches and then run only 1 or 2
cat 5 cables across from N0 to the Clipsal hardware.

Just a thought :-)

Cheers,

Tim H.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Wonders  Sent: 25 January 2005 11:32
>
> I'm in a position to decide whether or not I house my
> consumer unit next the CBus dimmers and relays or around 20m away.
> The situation is:
>
> Mains comes into the house at the Utility room and the Cbus
> installation will be in a dedicated Node 0 upstairs at the
> other side of the house.
> I can use armoured cable and extend the tails from the
> utility to Node 0 (about 20m) and house the consumer unit and
> cbus stuff together in Node 0, or I can house the consumer
> unit in the utility room and wire to Cbus in node 0 and then
> out to the lights etc (seems like long cable runs).
>
> Can anyone suggest the best solution?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Martin