RE: Stair step lights

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well,

The LED's are these:

http://www.abstractavr.com/steplights/lu1ip/

But a special order RGB mix at source LED - 1W. Actually pretty bright for
a marker/step light. I have about 16-17 of these to go in the floor of the
loft in 3 places - Office end wall, Office glass screen and bathroom.

The controllers are 3 of these:

http://www.abstractavr.com/leddrivers/lud48/

These have DMX control too.

For the DMX control I use one of these:

http://www.milinst.com/

512 channel serial to DMX controller.

I then use Lehane's excellent xAP to DMX software controller and generate
the xAP commands from CBus and/or HV Pro (and of course, any other HA app
required), through Kevin's superb HV/xAP/CBus gateway and out to xAP. The
xAP DMX software picks up the commands and controls the LED controllers.

(enough superlatives yet?) ;)

I can control the separate RGB channels (and white if the LED fixture has a
separate white LED but these don't) and overall dim level. The LUD48 LED
drivers also have a macro facility (8 macros - e.g. fade from 1 colour to
another to another at a set rate etc etc) that can be triggered by a DMX
channel. The driver can also be set to control the LEDs via an HSL (hue,
saturation and luminance) model rather than RGB if required.

So not exactly a cheap setup but very controllable and nice kit :)

At the moment, these are running on a bench (or on the floor!) until the
loft second fix has been done (starting next week). CBus is all ready to
start controlling them, I've just got to decide what scenes to setup and
what colours/fades look best. The purple/blue hues look really funky :)
although I've got a bit of experimenting to do yet...

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Wayne
> Sent: 22 February 2008 21:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Stair step lights
>
> Hiya Paul,
> If you dont mind me asking, what are you using as the RGB controller
of
> your LED's?
>
> I've got hold of one of those 'Dioders' from Ikea that has little RGB
> leds on a strip, the controller that comes with them is a little -
> pants
> - and I was looking to hack something together that offers a little
> more
> control.
>
> Cheers
> Wayne.
>
> Paul Gale wrote:
> > No I'm not after LEDs on the stairs (have a lot of RBG
controllable
> LED's in the loft though :) ) - I like the brighter halogen effect for
> the stair treads.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> >> Of Gareth Cook
> >> Sent: 22 February 2008 13:41
> >> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] Stair step lights
> >>
> >> not like this ?
> >>
> >> http://palmlodge.com/lookup/Stairs+LEDs
> >>
> >> They are very good at night time - illuminates very nicely.
> >>
> >> Andrew Walker has the larger 30mm units installed I believe
> >>
> >> G.
> >>
> >>  Gareth Cook
> >>  IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales Europe
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> >>  email: g@xxxxxxx
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> >> ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 22/02/2008 13:37
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> >> Does anyone have any halogen stair/step lights installed?
> >>
> >> I'm still looking for the right fixture that's at a
reasonable price
> >> and
> >> looks good.
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> >> Any ideas/recommendations welcomed :-)
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> >> Paul.
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