RE: Hello All! I'm looking for advice!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Frank Mc Alinden
> Sent: 16 January 2007 06:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Hello All! I'm looking for advice!
>
> Hi Paul
>
> >How many burdens you need depends on your CBUS network design.
Suffice it
> >to say that you >need at least 1. I rather suspect that an
"average" UK
> >size house probably won't need more than >1 however...
>
> My understanding is that only ONE burden is to be present in a CBUS
> Installation...

Absolutely correct ... if you find you "need" more then you have
a problem
on your network that you need to resolve.

> You are allowed to have approx 3 devices with clocks
> enabled......

Actually there isn't really a physical limit on the number of devices with
clocks enabled that you can have on a network. You only *NEED* one clock
but
of course if the module that is generating that clock was to fail in the
future (or somehow become disconnected from the network or be powered down)
then the whole network would stop working as there would be no clock. Hence
the suggestion to enable multiple clocks if you have them available.

In the real world what happens is the network syncs to the first clock that
comes up and should that clock ever go down then if there is another module
with a clock enabled then that clock will take over and keep everything
running and so on.

Phil