RE: CBus wiring and consumer unit

[Martin Wonders <martin.wonders@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,

I've got limited room in the utility and it's reducing by the day swmbo's
designing everything in there.
Also my Node 0 is a lot bigger than we first imagined (limiting space in
the
roof eaves is only limiting if your 6' 9''),
Consequently I need as much stuff out of the utility and into Node 0 as
poss.

Thanks for the thought

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) [mailto:haweste@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 January 2005 12:06
To: ukha_d
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CBus wiring and consumer unit


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