RE: CBus Toolkit

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's unlikely that you would have anywhere near enough load on a single
channel for one of those big commercial units to be of any use to you.

You're far better to try to achieve further savings via intelligent
switching and dimming but at the end of the day there is ultimately a
plateu
point of how much energy you can save without spending a disproportionate
amount of money of kit to implement additional saving (and/or implementing
a
reigime that impacts upon domestic comfort).

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Chris Hunter
> Sent: 09 June 2007 13:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CBus Toolkit
>
> thanks ... for our 'build we're looking to go with HF
> fluorescent lamps ... for all their advantages, including
> dimmability ... and I guess the electronic ballasts that this
> will entail will already include tricks like voltage
> fall-back ... 'though the full-brightness energy savings for
> going HF seem to be only about 15%, which I'd assumed would
> come from the HF itself, rather than any fall-back tricks
> (ie: was wondering if there was more to come) ...still, as
> you say, dimming will (presumably) achieve the same !
>
> Chris