RE: CBus wiring

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's exactly what I wanted thanks :)

... I could do with a clothes line - having one built into the fabric of
the building would be cool ;)

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 05 March 2007 13:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CBus wiring
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> > Phil (again!!!) - how susceptible is the CBus network to
> > noise/interference - or not at all?
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> > Paul.
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> Erm ... how do you want me to answer that question? In what kind of
> units/terms do you want my reply? (Alternatively - "don't measure
> something
> you can't do anything about.")
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> The short and unfortunately flippant sounding answer is "As
resilient
> as you
> allow it to be."
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> At the end of the day if you design your C-Bus network properly,
giving
> due
> consideration to avoiding parallel runs with nearby mains cables, not
> trapping or snagging C-Bus cables, ensuring correct use of burdens,
> appropriate placement of power supplies or powered modules etc. then
> you
> will have a network which is pretty much guaranteed to work
faultlessly
> for
> years. However, in the harsh reality of life (and with the amazing
> capacity
> of people to simply bollocks things up in ways that never cease to
> amaze me)
> you could - with some effort - end up with a network which is more use
> as a
> clothes line.
>
> So - simple answer is, if you go by the network design
"rules" and
> allow it
> to be reliable then it will be ... my own experience of C-Bus has been
> that
> you can do some pretty awful things to the implementation of the
> network and
> it'll still manage to work, I've seen installs where there has been C-
> Bus
> squirted over CAT5E, Twin & Earth, Bell Wire, Alarm Wire and even
along
> cheapo TV RF coax and it has still worked fine but that's not to say
> that I
> would ever suggest any of those routes.
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> Phil
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