Re: Photos of Home Automation

[Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne

Let me try to answer those questions for you

1st thing - Cbus does not have a central 'brain' each cbus units knows
about the others and how they are programmed.

Top left hand units are for future expansion

Top Middle is a larger cbus dimmer

Bottom middle with 2 pink cables is the cbus to ethernet box - This
allows me to program cbus from my armchair

Yes there is a breaker for each circuit that is switched

The Pink cable loops in and out of each cbus unit for cbus communication


So lets wire up a single room with 1 Light and 1 switch

1 Twin and earth Wire from Light back to cbus modules that you see top
right
1 pink cbus cable looped through the switch
Thats all really - Took me ages to get my head around it


Right bottom half of the panels

Left Hand side - Node Zero distribution board fed from the main
downstairs consumer unit about 25m away - Fed using the think black
cable you can see pictures of. Fed from 62 amp breaker downstairs.
This will be used to power other odds and sods in the area

Bottom Right - 2 Comfort Alarm Panels also have ethernet capability
and connect to cbus

At the moment I am just planning to switch lighting nothing more yet

Any other questions then fire away

Ben


On 17 Jul 2008, at 18:23, Wayne wrote:

> Hiya Ben,
> Can I be a complete noob with this and ask some real basic (and
> nosey!)
> questions . :)
>
> Looking at http://flickr.com/photos/thinkinghouse/2674566591/
(the
> overview of node0)
>
> Going across the top These look like a bigger version of a
> distribution
> panel - I guess the ones on the left give a nice lot of expansion!
> being
> as there is nothing in there yet?
> The cbus box in the middle - is this the brains to it all? I guess
> this
> is the bit you plug your lan into and get at it via ip?
> With the boxes on the right - do you have a breaker per each 'thing'
> that gets switched? do you /need/ those or are the little control
> panel
> strips overly sensitive?
> Looks like there are 16 breakers in the top of each of those panels
> but
> the right most has two controllers what's the difference?
> Am I right in thinking that each of the cbus strips that are in each
> panel is just using a cat5 patch lead to plug back to the brain unit
> (I
> cant tell what that little box is under the brain is or where its
> hooked
> to).
>
> If this is the 'control centre' for it all - what type of wiring is
> needed from a switch to turn on a light? again, all wired individually
> back to the brain? (star topology?)
>
> The boxes to the lower right and lower middle - these are the alarm
> panels? - nuff said there :) (although - do these have a lan interface
> as well?)
>
> Lower left - looks like a regular distribution panel, any reason for
> that with all the other stuff up there? What size feed is coming up
> from
> your main house board (I've got a spare 32amp breaker itching to go
> somewhere!)
>
> Are you just switching lighting with all this or can you do regular 13
> amp sockets as well?
>
> Sorry for the grilling - just trying to get my head around how you go
> about designing one of these things and how it all plugs together.
> Hope you don't mind :-)
>
> Thanks
> Wayne.
>
> Ben McCormack wrote:
> > All
> >
> > As promised here are the photos from of the building of my node
zero
> >
> > Luckily I have a large wall in a large loft that is perfect for
node
> > zero. So I was able to spread things out and try and lay them out
> > neatly.
> >
> > Sorry the photos are not tagged but I am sure most of you will
> > recognise most items
> >
> > So far we have
> >
> > Zone Zero Consumer Unit
> > Some cbus Modules (Loads of expansion for later)
> > 2 Comfort Panels
> >
> > Now comes the best bit - All of this technology and I am now able
2
> > switch the lights in 2 rooms on and off via cbus!!!
> >
> > http://flickr.com/photos/thinkinghouse/
> >
> > Enjoy
> >
> > Ben
> >
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